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cli

Spectre.Console.Cli provides some default, hidden options that can prove useful to you, in particular if you want to dynamically call any of the commands from any version of the tool.

version

$ cilout cli version

Spectre.Cli version 0.43.0+168f35202d3050c17770e0606bc736e2e88b59c4
Spectre.Console version 0.43.0+168f35202d3050c17770e0606bc736e2e88b59c4

xmldoc

$ cilout cli xmldoc

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Model>
  <!--IS-TRIMMABLE-->
  <Command Name="is-trimmable" IsBranch="false" ClrType="CilOut.IsTrimmableCommand" Settings="CilOut.IsTrimmableCommand+Settings">
    <Parameters>
      <Argument Name="assembly" Position="0" Required="true" Kind="scalar" ClrType="System.String">
        <Description>Assembly to verify for presence of `[[assembly: AssemblyMetadata ("Trimmable", "true")]]`</Description>
      </Argument>
      <Option Short="q" Long="quiet" Value="NULL" Required="false" Kind="flag" ClrType="System.Boolean">
        <Description>No visible output. Use return code.</Description>
      </Option>
    </Parameters>
  </Command>
</Model>

explain

$ cilout cli explain

CLI Configuration
├── Application Name cilout
├── Parsing Mode: Relaxed
└── Commands
    └── is-trimmable
        ├── Description: (no description)
        ├── Type CilOut.IsTrimmableCommand
        ├── Settings Type: CilOut.IsTrimmableCommand+Settings
        └── Parameters
            ├── Assembly assembly position 0 System.String
            └── Quiet --quiet | -q System.Boolean

Environment Variables

V

You can set V to get extra verbosity when exicuting cilout. For example this will print out exceptions on the console.