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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by fao_ on Monday April 23, 2018 @03:40PM (#16906700)
The standard for plain text output in the terminal is and has always been TSV.
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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by nnq on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:03AM (#16919430)
...and how does one do nested/tree-like data in TSV? One doesn't, only just ad-hoc invents something akin to sexps or json but unstandardized. Real-world data rarely has a natural fit for "tabl
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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by fao_ on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:14PM (#16979061)
How many standard UNIX programs do you know that output tree data?

And almost always you can find an alternative to non-tree-based representation without having to reinvent sexprs. Look at how ps represents the process tree, for example.

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