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cli tools not just walking me through it and instead having me ace the flags, is really just a niggerlicious holdover from the 80s and I don't care that I'm a noob and don't have 20000 hours grinding away at moldy ass system code.

it should be able to detect if you were running from cli or a shell script, and if it is the former, it should just tell you what it is gonna do if you hit enter, which is the default, and if you want something else just have a little wizard that assembles the command into a line at the bottom so then when you walked through the options, you have
>$ foo --flag-one 12 --flag-two /path/to/file ...
and so on and then you just hit enter and it runs it and you can copy-paste the command for later.

I really don't see what the problem is just doing it like that except it would take a bit of work to set up the wizard. if everything had wizard support though, you could make it be "$ wizard foo" though, instead of "$ man foo" and then it wouldn't really take that long to make one

RT: https://poa.st/objects/d58b406a-d72c-430b-8755-e6a35c5bae4d

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