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Posted by Nils Garland
Nils Garland
18,416 Points

How to make terminal applications?

Hi! I have been using composer and git many times in my PHP projects. I have noticed that these kind of programs are SO AWESOME. And I'd love to know how one would go about getting that sort of thing to work. Say I had a terminal program that allowed you to bake a curtain hypothetical cookie. Then in the terminal I would write.

bake chocolate_chip

This would "bake" the cookie.

So basically what I'm asking is, how do you make those kind of packages? And where can I find the recourses to learn it?

1 Answer

benjamind
benjamind
6,442 Points
benjamind
benjamind
6,442 Points

Hey Nils,

that depends on the platform / operating system you want to run this program on. Basic operations on the linux shell can be done as a shell script for example. But you can always use other programming languages to write applications that can run in a terminal. On Mac OS you could write such an application in Xcode and Objective C... but there are so many options.