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Technically Correct CLI Help
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Technically Correct CLI Help

Description

The image is a tweet by Trammell Hudson, @qrs, saying "thanks, that's a big help." with a "Tweet vertalen" link below it. The embedded terminal screenshot shows a prompt at "diamond~" where the user runs "banner" and then "banner --help". Instead of usage documentation, the command prints a giant ASCII-art word "HELP" made of hash marks, then returns to the prompt. The humor is classic Unix literalism: a help flag that delivers the word help rather than helpful information.

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CLI Tooling Documentation DeveloperExperience DX

Common Tags

CLI CommandLineInterface TerminalCommands CommandLineShell CLITools UnixCommands Ascii Documentation TerminalLife LiteralInterpretation TechnicalAbsurdity DeveloperHumor UnixCulture

Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The help flag passed QA because it returned HELP with 100% character coverage.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The help flag passed QA because it returned HELP with 100% character coverage.

  2. @nuntikov 4y

    man banner

  3. @vo1dee 4y

    есть в apt-get?

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