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I wish I could dig it up now, but years ago I ran a QA team that needed to validate that our equivalent of man pages could be downloaded on the fly with a command. The guy who owned it came up with a test plan that included setting up and maintaining a web server just for this purpose, and was dragging the project on for weeks until I sat through lunch one day and wrote him a bare bones HTTP server in Powershell that we could just start locally and talk to at run-time. I'm pretty sure the first cut of it was only like 50 lines of code.


Today you can do it in single line.




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