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Re:Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app by preseinger on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:03AM (#29456353)
That jq expression is surely more difficult to summon than a line-based grep pattern.
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Re:Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app by kbrazil on Monday December 06, 2021 @01:19AM (#29456773)
Grep would not be able to do numeric comparison, would it?
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Re:Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app by preseinger on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:44PM (#29490241)
Not directly, but once you want to do that, IMO, you've moved out of "shell script" territory and into "actual program" territory.
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