Comment by treesknees

13 days ago

This is why in our codebase we have a rule to not use short options/flags for called commands like curl. And if there is only a short option available, it must be explained in a code comment.

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xrisk  12 days ago

Why do you call curl via the binary instead of using libcurl?

  • treesknees  12 days ago

    As others stated, shell scripts and some other automation that have to call the cli tool directly, or where we need to build out the cmd and execute it on a remote node.

    We use libcurl and pycurl where it makes sense. This rule for cli options extends to other binaries as well, some that don’t offer libraries like curl does (think closed source firmware tools or ancient homegrown cli tools.)