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Command-line shells
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2011–2021), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Command-line shells, 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 4 complaints
- Filenames with spaces must be quoted everywhere, which is tedious to type2021-11-11
- Users cannot discover the right command like df without searching the internet or man pages2021-04-09
- Shells offer no inline command options or use-case help, forcing users to leave for Stack Overflow2018-09-15
- Shell commands are non-obvious and newcomers get no built-in tutorial or introduction2011-08-04