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Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century (blog.kellybrazil.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by starman to c/programming

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TL;DR: It would be cool if all CLI apps supported JSON output, but in the meantime we can use jc

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[–] ishanpage 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

While jc is a great tool, and I'm definitely a fan, I believe the real solution to the overarching problem lies in a paradigm shift: see nushell

[–] starman 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I actually use both! It's so nice to just jc git log and then work with the data using nushell :)

[–] dukk 1 points 11 months ago

Oh that’s smart! And then nushell just handles the data for you…I might try that!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I've always struggled with actually retaining knowledge on how to use the myriad tools you'd usually need to extract/parse data (awk, sed and friends) and this was a game changer. I don't quite daily drive it just yet but when I do need it, it's vastly more ergonomic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

love to read fellow* people in the unix world discovering what made powershell great 10+ years ago as though it's a paradigm shift. and the top comment of the thread is still nitpicking the points in the post while missing the forest for the trees. I mean ifconfig as an example is lol but still.

like powershell's got such bizarre warts and design choices and it's more ergonomic than unstructured text pipelines despite that

i know it's not that simple but still, lol

*linux has been my primary os for 9+ years, not throwing stones here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Nushell is so great! I’ve been using it for a couple years. It has completely replaced my need for tools like grep, sed, awk, etc. and because it handles JSON and so many other data formats natively I rarely even need to think about parsing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thank you for bringing up nushell, had never heard of it