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Command Line Interface Guidelines

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

This is the source code for the guide. To read it, go to clig.dev.

Join us on Discord if you want to discuss the guide, or just chat about CLI design.

Contributing

The content of the guide lives in a single Markdown file, content/_index.md. The website is built using Hugo.

To run Hugo locally to see your changes, run:

$ brew install hugo
$ cd <path>/<to>/cli-guidelines/
$ hugo server

To view the site on an external mobile device, run:

hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --baseURL http://$(hostname -f):1313

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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