[gbear0]

I keep having the same thoughts, but I'm not sure it needs to be a full OS solution. Also a related problem that always frustrates me with input is what do I use for the help command? Is it '-h', '-help', '--help', or just 'help', or even man pages only. Each script/bin has its own way of doing things and this seems like something that should be standardized, but I realize there's no great way to do that currently when its just input to the program.

I wonder if instead of an OS solution we can just add more metadata to the actual binary files we compile. For example, if we have a new ELF format that has an optional list of commands, options, full input/output types, etc, any one of the shells can start to provide better tooling. Output format types can then be passed along with the stream, and potentially checked that they work as the proper inputs for another command. Let the shell auto generate the simple cli help docs, or generate the bash completions, or figure out how to better convert data to desired types.