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Transcript
Awesome Command Line Tools Amjith Ramanujam
Amjith Ramanujam @amjithr
Netflix Traffic Engineering
PGCLI & MYCLI https://pgcli.com http://mycli.net
MS-DOS 6.22 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/MS-DOS_install_welcome.gif
Linux • Up/Down arrow • Tab-completion
DISCOVERABILITY
GUI • ICONS • MENUS
PGCLI https://www.pgcli.com
Fish Shell https://fishshell.com
DEMO
Discoverability • Be forthcoming • Eschew special keys
USER FOCUS
MyCLI http://mycli.net
DEMO
User Focus • Users come first • Implementation later
bpython https://bpython-interpreter.org
DEMO
CONFIGURABILITY
Configurability • Subjective options only
DISCOVERABILITY USER FOCUS CONFIGURABILITY
FISHSHELL BPYTHON PGCLI MYCLI
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CHECKLIST ❏ Persistent History ❏ History search ❏ Emacs Keybindings
❏ Paged Output ❏ Auto-Completion ❏ Minimal Config ❏ Syntax Coloring
prompt-toolkit https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
REPL Read/Eval/Print/Loop
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CHECKLIST ✓ Persistent History ✓ History search ✓ Emacs Keybindings
❏ Paged Output ✓ Auto-Completion ✓ Minimal Config ✓ Syntax Coloring
Resources • pgcli.com • mycli.net • fishshell.com (design) • bpython-interpreter.org
• prompt-toolkit
Contact @amjithr • @jonathan_s - Jonathan • @ballingt - Thomas
• @icherniavska - Irina
Thank you! @amjithr