Microsoft Command Line Standard - 0 views
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our goal is to present a consistent, composable command line user experience. Achieving that allows a user to learn a core set of concepts (syntax, naming, behaviors, etc) and then be able to translate that knowledge into working with a large set of commands. Those commands should be able to output standardized streams of data in a standardized format to allow easy composition without the burden of parsing streams of output text.
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Microsoft's new "Command Line Standard" guidance on how to write applications which behave nicely as part of a command line interface pipeline ... specifically, PowerShell Commandlets implement most of this by default, but this willl allow unmanaged apps to better coexist in the PowerShell world ...