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

  • @ishanpage
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    6 months ago

    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

    • @starmanOP
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      76 months ago

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

      • @dukk
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        16 months ago

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

    • Lupec
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      6 months 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.

      • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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        26 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

    • Thinker
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      56 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.