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Command line interface #2
Description
It would be extremely useful nice if this tool could provide a unified interactive command line interface across unix for most frequent commands.
For example, below is my typical session in unix environment (and the reason why I am here through PyPI) - I am trying to see a list of all human users on the system:
~# users
root
~# users -h
users: invalid option -- 'h'
Try `users --help' for more information.
~# users -help
users: invalid option -- 'h'
Try `users --help' for more information.
~# users -help
users: invalid option -- 'h'
Try `users --help' for more information.
~# users --help
Usage: users [OPTION]... [FILE]
Output who is currently logged in according to FILE.
If FILE is not specified, use /var/run/utmp. /var/log/wtmp as FILE is common.
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
Report users bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report users translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'users invocation'
~# man users
...
And it is unsuccessful. What I'd expect is:
# pip install unix
# unix users
root
techtonik
# unix -h
unix users --- list users
# unix users -h
unix users [--all]
options:
--all --- also list system users
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fmenabe commentedon Sep 21, 2015
This module aims (in disorder):
host = Ubuntu(Linux(unix.Local()))). By using this system, it is possible to implement others APIs (ex: https://github.com/fmenabe/python-kvm, https://github.com/fmenabe/python-lxc)host.users.list(),host.path.exists('/tmp'))Exposing APIs with a command-line interface (or even a REPL) is a nice idea! But, from the goals of this module it may not be simple and, as you pointed out, I don't even had time to make the documentation ... So I don't think it will be done soon.
Anyway, thanks for your contribution!
techtonik commentedon Sep 24, 2015
Well, with some effort being put into command line tool, I'd expect people to come up with PRs that close their immediate needs for the tool (and use / improve API as a result). Using API directly takes more time and effort, especially if it doesn't have docs. =)