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Do any of you Windows users leverage CLI tools much? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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I built a service whose primary client is a CLI program. I was thinking about building that client for Windows as well (not just WSL). My target users are generally technically-proficient so I'd rather not build a whole GUI app if it's unnecessary. But I honestly have no idea how often Windows users use CLI tools beyond some Windows admin stuff.

So if Windows is your daily driver, how often do you leverage the shell and how unusual would it be to use CLI tools in your workflows?

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[–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

Could you give me some examples of tools you use? Ideally things that are built to be cross-platform (I suppose git would be a good example). I'd like to see what others are doing. I'm especially curious how CLI options are treated on cross-platform CLI tools, since /o is more common than -o on Windows.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I use git all the time at work from CLI. Windows Terminal is something I would highly recommend if you're going to heavily use CLI on Windows. Set up profiles for CMD, PowerShell, and if you have it, git bash. I don't use WSL (don't use Linux at work and use actual Linux at home) but git bash provides Windows equivalents of commonly used Linux/Unix commands.

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