About the CLI Guidelines category

The CLI guidelines are Canonical’s best practices around designing command line tools and console UIs.

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Commands structure
Positional arguments
stdout or stderr
–help
To new line or not to new line
Use of colours
Interactive prompts
Incomplete commands
Punctuation
Tone of voice
CLI verbosity levels
Empty states
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URLs

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