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.