CLI mode?

[17500mph]

My understanding is Diskm8 operates in a way that involves remaining within the application to take advantage of it's functions. As if it were the user at the keyboard, BRUN DISKM8 and insert a disk, execute your actions, quit/exit back to basic.

As opposed to ~:COMMAND -FOO -BAR- --Whatever -- A2DiskImage.xxx
.. and the results are piped back to the console.

If Diskm8 can operate as a CLI, I'm not seeing it. The way the source code is broken down by function that would make building individual commands that do just the one function appear to be within close range.

What I'm after primarily is to be able to get a catalog of whatever disk image is passed to it.
..to extract specific filetypes (where able) or wildcard naming either as files or just returned as a list from the specified disk image.
..to specify a file on disk or within an image for detokenizing to the console for viewing.
Applesoft/Integer Basic, Merlin source, Magic Window, Pie Writer, things that store high bit, etc.

I'd like to add the functionality to a file browser, vastly expanded auto index experience.

I can do bits here and there with some of whats out there but Diskm8 by itself beats the rest hands down no questions. Except for CP/M images, nothing else does more than ProDOS / DOS 3.3, with most being just ProDOS and a single image format.

The closest other utility would be Cadius, which in theory should be pretty close to Linux build-able given that there is a Mac derivative already.

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