I've been trying nushell and words fail me. It's like it was made for actual humans to use! 🤯 🤯 🤯
It even repeats the column headers at the end of the table if the output takes more than your screen...
Trying to think of how to do the same thing with awk/grep/sort/whatever is giving me a headache. Actually just thinking about awk is giving me a headache. I think I might be allergic.
I'm really curious, what's your favorite shell? Have you tried other shells than your distro's default one? Are you an awk wizard or do you run away very fast whenever it's mentioned?
That's interesting I hadn't thought about the JSON angle! Do you mean that you can actually use
jqon regular command outputs likels -l?Oil is an interesting project and the backward compatibility with bash is very neat! I don't see myself using it though, since it's syntax is very close to bash on purpose I'd probably get oil syntax and bash syntax all mixed up in my head and forget which is which... So I went with nushell because it doesn't look anything like bash. If you know python what do you think about xonsh? I
No, you need to be using a tool which has json output as an option. These are becoming more common, but I think still rare among the GNU coreutils.
lsoutput especially is unparseable, as in, there are tons of resources telling people not to do it because it's pretty much guaranteed to break.There's jc (CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries).
You've opened a rabbit hole I know I'm just going to fall down... thanks netizen!