[NANOG] Re: The Network CLI -- Love it ? Hate it? Needed?

[brent saner via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 15:06 Mark Prosser via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> Hi NANOG community,
>
> I posed this question in several chat groups, but I'd like to get your
> opinions.
>
> Do you love the CLI? Do you hate the CLI? Would you -- or do you already
> -- enjoy a world where you never need to touch the CLI, to manage your
> network?
>
> This applies to both provisioning and troubleshooting; to which, you may
> have different answers.
>
> So far, I've seen a variety of replies around the usual
> "should/must/must not/should not".
>
> Warm regards,

*NIX sysops (not netops) lurker here.

I'm not surprised to see so many prefer a CLI over a GUI, and have many of
the same reasons for the same preference myself in my scope of duties.

But I'm dying to know, for those in here that are *also* proficient in
sh/bash/ksh/csh/zsh/whatever...

Is it just familiarity bias on my part or is net kit shell command syntax
just kind of _terrible_?
It seems like it's mostly/all (depending on vendor) just subcommand after
subcommand and positional arguments (which of course you can't visually
parse as distinct from each other). Y'all's Tab keycaps must be worn
through.
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