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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

And there is also Nushell and similar projects. Nushell has a concept with the same purpose as jc where you can install Nushell frontend functions for familiar commands such that the frontends parse output into a structured format, and you also get Nushell auto-completions as part of the package. Some of those frontends are included by default.

As an example if you run ps you get output as a Nushell table where you can select columns, filter rows, etc. Or you can run ^ps to bypass the Nushell frontend and get the old output format.

Of course the trade-off is that Nushell wants to be your whole shell while jc drops into an existing shell.