[nucleardog]

> is there a way to make CLI "more discoverable"?

The first time I used Cisco’s IOS was pretty eye-opening to me, and I was thoroughly confused why something like that wasn’t present everywhere. (The only other place I’ve seen it is in MikroTik’s CLI.)

For those not familiar, at any point anywhere you can simply type a question mark and it will tell you all the valid inputs (commands, arguments, etc) at the exact spot your cursor is at and then put you right back where you were ready to continue typing.

You could discover a lot — not only what you were searching for, but related functionality — just by throwing a ‘?’ at it whenever you didn’t know what to type next.

Of course it helped that everything was named in a very straightforward manner. Something like this is never going to help you to discover a new Unix command because many are “cleverly” named. But once you find one you’ll be able to use it without ever referencing a manual page.