May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
117 pages
1h 57m
English
Alfredo Deza
Once you are past simple command-line tools that have a particular objective, it is time to move on and explore solutions that perhaps you weren’t aware you needed. Recently at work, I was in charge of rethinking the reporting output of a command-line tool that was providing a table with columns and headers as the default format. The problem with a header-and-column format is that users will end up wanting more columns and get more information. This is what ended happening to this tool at work. It was reporting so many columns that the output would not fit in my large monitor. When the information reported has any chance of including more fields, it will. Users aren’t all the same; consumers ...