TAURUS(1)

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✨ TAURUS(1) — like, the taurus command line interface bestie ✨

okay so this is the page for taurus, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section 1 (that's your "run it, don't read it" section, iykyk 💅). Let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

taurus — the Taurus command line interface. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

taurus [options] [subcommand [suboptions] [args] ... ]

like. options, then maybe a subcommand, then that subcommand's own suboptions, then whatever args it wants, and you can keep going forever if you're feeling chaotic. 💀

🦋 OVERVIEW 🦋

so Taurus is a python framework for control and data acquisition CLIs and GUIs, and it's built for scientific/industrial environments. very serious work, very cute framework. 💖

The taurus command is the main CLI access for launching Taurus tools. It's built on subcommands (things like form, gui, …) and each subcommand is the thing that actually does the functionality. Think of taurus as the group chat and the subcommands as the individual besties. 🧚

  • form — one of the subcommands, mentioned right here in the manual 🎀
  • gui — also a subcommand, also mentioned right here 🎀
and here's the iconic part: subcommands can be dynamically provided by plugins ✨ so the list isn't fixed and nobody's out here keeping a static roster. That means the actual best source of info about what options and subcommands you've got is to just run it:
taurus --help

and if you want the tea on one specific subcommand — its own options, its own arguments, all of it — you run:

taurus <command> --help

because every subcommand has its own detailed help. no cap, just ask it. 🔥

For more info about the whole Taurus project, go visit http://taurus-scada.org 🌈

real talk though: since plugins can add subcommands whenever, don't trust any list you saw in a blog post from 2019. run taurus --help and let the machine tell you. periodt. 👑

and that's the page!! thanks for reading my little manpage, this was TAURUS(1) from the General Commands Manual, and yes the footer just says TAURUS(1) too, because it wanted to match. slay. 💅🎀✨

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