utilities for commandline-based programs

 The Commandable distribution contains a collection of utilities extracted
 from various commandline-based programs, in the hope of trying to find a
 standard base to build these from in future.
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 "Commandline" does not necessarily mean "plain-text running in a terminal";
 simply that the mode of operation is that the user types a textual
 representation of some action, and the program parses this text in order to
 perform it. This could equally apply to a command input text area in a GUI
 program.