[mikkupikku]

It has long been a pet peeve of mine that the *nix world has no standard reliable convention for how to interrogate a program for it's available flags. Instead there are at least a dozen ways it can be done and you can't rely on any one of them.

[speed_spread]

I've been thinking about using an OpenAPI schema to describe cli tools. It would probably need extensions to describe stdin/stout and other things that don't happen in REST.

[tomeraberbach]

Have you seen Stainless's CLI generator?

https://www.stainless.com/blog/stainless-cli-generator-your-...

[lelanthran]

That's not specific to unix though.

[mikkupikku]

I didn't say it was, but I simply don't care what problems any other kind of system has because they aren't my problems. Last time I had windows on any of my computers it was windows 98.

[wizzwizz4]

With the right DOS flags, Windows 98 had pretty well standardised on /?. Of course, when you changed those flags, some programs would stick with their hardcoded /?, others would change to -?, and yet others would just fall over.