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Caveat: Accept STDIN somewhat counter to Empathetic CLI #14

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As a counterpoint to the suggestion with 'empathetic CLIs', having a CLI that may suddenly block for STDIN is not friendly or empathetic. It does not account for an invocation that be run un-attended (ie on a build server, or scheduled cron job). Indeed, I would go so far as to say that any single CLI command should always be interactive or never be interactive; not sometimes.

It's also worth noting that an invocation that has STDOUT piped to its STDIN will start consuming that STDIN as if from the user if it attempts to switch to interactive mode based on some ambiguity. That is almost certainly not what the author nor user wants.

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