Merge pull request #372 from DhiaTN/patch-1

Update cli.rst
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Ian Cordasco
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@@ -28,3 +28,11 @@ rather than written down by imperatively. It is targetting especially unsophisti
users, programmers, sys-admins, scientists and in general people writing throw-away
scripts for themselves, choosing the command-line interface because it is quick
and simple.
Cliff
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`Cliff <https://cliff.readthedocs.org/en/latest>`_ is a framework for building command line programs.
It uses setuptools entry points to provide subcommands, output formatters, and other extensions. The framework
is meant to be used to create multi-level commands such as subversion and git, where the main program handles
some basic argument parsing and then invokes a sub-command to do the work.