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Awesome Command Line Tools Amjith Ramanujam

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Amjith Ramanujam @amjithr

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Netflix Traffic Engineering

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PGCLI & MYCLI https://pgcli.com http://mycli.net

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MS-DOS 6.22 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/MS-DOS_install_welcome.gif

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Linux ● Up/Down arrow ● Tab-completion

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DISCOVERABILITY

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GUI ● ICONS ● MENUS

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PGCLI https://www.pgcli.com

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Fish Shell https://fishshell.com

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DEMO

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Discoverability ● Be forthcoming ● Eschew special keys

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USER FOCUS

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MyCLI http://mycli.net

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DEMO

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User Focus ● Users come first ● Implementation later

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bpython https://bpython-interpreter.org

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DEMO

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CONFIGURABILITY

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Configurability ● Subjective options only

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DISCOVERABILITY USER FOCUS CONFIGURABILITY

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FISHSHELL BPYTHON PGCLI MYCLI

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CHECKLIST ❏ Persistent History ❏ History search ❏ Emacs Keybindings ❏ Paged Output ❏ Auto-Completion ❏ Minimal Config ❏ Syntax Coloring

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prompt-toolkit https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit

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REPL Read/Eval/Print/Loop

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CHECKLIST ✓ Persistent History ✓ History search ✓ Emacs Keybindings ❏ Paged Output ✓ Auto-Completion ✓ Minimal Config ✓ Syntax Coloring

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Resources ● pgcli.com ● mycli.net ● fishshell.com (design) ● bpython-interpreter.org ● prompt-toolkit

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Contact @amjithr ● @jonathan_s - Jonathan ● @ballingt - Thomas ● @icherniavska - Irina

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Thank you! @amjithr