wireservice / wireservice/csvkit

Add csvkit command to display help message about other commands

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Description

Heya! Big fan of csvkit here, it's been one of the packages I install with Shell Bling Ubuntu for a long time now. 😃

I think it would make sense to wrap the command csvkit itself around the other real commands it installs, so that running csvkit by itself prints something like

$ csvkit
csvkit 1.0.7 installs the following commands:
- csvclean
- csvcut
- csvformat
- csvjoin
- csvjson
- [... you get the idea]

This is a very small thing, but I bet a lot of people trying it out for the first time would appreciate it.

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Research direction

Start by locating csvkit's command-line entry point and the installed commands, then run csvkit with no arguments to observe its current behavior. Done means invoking csvkit alone displays the package version and the relevant command list without changing the existing commands.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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