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Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century (blog.kellybrazil.com)
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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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[–] 30 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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