Issues

• Any guide about short flag stacking ls -la == ls -l -a ?

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#163 · Filter by author takuyahara opened on Sep 7, 2026

• both $VISUAL and $EDITOR specify the preferred text editor

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#162 · Filter by author zlago opened on Jul 20, 2026

• Skill?

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#161 · Filter by author jagrat7 opened on Mar 16, 2026
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• New section: AI agent ergonomics

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#160 · Filter by author tashian opened on Mar 6, 2026

• Passing infinity or unlimited for option value in command line

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#159 · Filter by author abitrolly opened on Mar 5, 2026
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• cli guidelines as a reusable skill

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#154 · Filter by author pascalandy opened on Dec 25, 2025
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• Exit code for default help without arguments

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#152 · Filter by author abitrolly opened on Nov 22, 2025
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• Low color contrast affecting readability

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#151 · Filter by author frankie303 opened on Oct 14, 2025
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• Website is borderline unusable without 3D acceleration

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#149 · Filter by author marmarta opened on Jul 8, 2025

• Discussion: Opinions and inspiration about naming a new CLI command

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#147 · Filter by author buhtz opened on May 11, 2025

• Print usage to stdout

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#145 · Filter by author abitrolly opened on Apr 9, 2025
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• Should command line help text be capitalized and end with dot or not?

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#139 · Filter by author ssbarnea opened on Dec 2, 2024
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• No recommended cli library for C / C++?

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#130 · Filter by author hq6 opened on Apr 21, 2024

• Clarify that the NO_COLOR=1 doesn't mean stripping all the ANSI escape sequences

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#116 · Filter by author webknjaz opened on Nov 24, 2023

• Clarify if env variables should take precedence to config provided by param

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#110 · Filter by author BrynCooke opened on Feb 16, 2023
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• Permalinks don't open to the right spot in Firefox

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#108 · Filter by author tashian opened on Oct 14, 2022

• Add a list of formatting libraries to the Output section

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#106 · Filter by author tashian opened on Jul 20, 2022

• "Increase information density—with ASCII art!" is problematic for accessibility

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#103 · Filter by author dbjorge opened on Jun 7, 2022
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• "Make it easy to type." harms its credibility with "apple" vs. "orange"

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#96 · Filter by author ssokolow opened on Nov 1, 2021
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• "Prefer flags to args." could be misinterpreted

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#95 · Filter by author ssokolow opened on Nov 1, 2021

• Indications of what the various libraries supports (esp. "git-style" multi-word)

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#93 · Filter by author thoni56 opened on Sep 12, 2021
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• Do not use HTTP_PROXY (HTTP_*) to avoid vulnerabilities

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#87 · Filter by author ko1nksm opened on Aug 2, 2021
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• Recommend some documentation tooling

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#84 · Filter by author aanand opened on Jun 14, 2021
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• Environment variable file .env should support export?

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#83 · Filter by author tashian opened on Jun 1, 2021
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• Other valid environment variables emoticons

  cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines#82 · Filter by author archiloque opened on May 23, 2021
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