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You can always just use JQ.

Additionally, as JSON is text, you can use awk/sed/grep and so on.

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scj3y ago

The intent is that standard tools would output alternative formats.

Right; every file is just bytes but we get a lot of mileage out of libraries like libpng that parse those bytes into usefully structured info. And I was pondering what more could evolve to parse info from the command line.

I think stdjson is insane yet awesome to ponder.

dotancohen3y ago

I agree that a standardized structured format would be awesome, but I'm not convinced that JSON is it. And there should _not_ be more than one.

One thing that I do like about JSON is that it is ubiquitous - and that makes up for a lot of its other faults. But I would like to see proposed use cases that JSON would not support beforehand, to clearly define where the limitations are, and what limitations the community is willing to accept.

nishs3y ago

The tool should instead provide an `--output=<format>` flag, where <format> is one of text (default), json, xml, etc.

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