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Command-line options
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2018–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Command-line options, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Text-based arguments need quoting and get misparsed, e.g. filenames read as switches2024-09-10
- Short flags are cryptic, hard to read later, and easy to misuse in scripts2022-03-22
- Command-line options are poorly organized, so users depend on search to find them2020-03-05
- Command-line options are hard to discover and use, requiring memorised minutiae2020-03-03
- Parameters give no hint of their meaning, so users must look them up before using them2018-12-10