Chapter 27. Command-Line Utilities
Earlier in this book, you used the macOS command-line tool template to create two projects: MonsterTown and CyclicalAssets. Those exercises were designed to give you a place to explore the Swift language; they were not real, useful tools.
As a Swift developer, you now have the ability to create command-line tools that you can use to automate common tasks, perform calculations, transform data, and more. In this chapter, you will build a tool that can process command-line options and arguments, interactively accept user input, and be run outside of Xcode.
Introduction to the Command Line
Command-line tools are so named because users interact with them using a command-line interface (CLI), often via the Terminal ...
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