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With the old Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW; a text-based shell for Mac OS of the 80s and 90s) there was similar functionality called Commando for almost every command. The commando information was kept in a 'cmdo' resource. Something similar could be done today with extended attributes, if support wasn't so hit or miss.

Oh, apparently, A/UX had commando as well. If you double-clicked a terminal command from the Finder, it would pop up the commando box to choose your CLI options, then run it in a shell window. Today, running a terminal command from Finder just runs it without any arguments in a shell window.

https://cohost.org/boredzo/post/804893-i-still-want-a-moder

http://toastytech.com/guis/aux3.html




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