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A comment on Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson.

Re:Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson by sprobertson on Saturday August 11, 2012 @01:50AM (#4369554)
I've been playing around with a similar idea - using plain JSON as the message format, you can make a set of pipeable command line utilities for manipulating data from many web APIs.
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Re:Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson by zootm on Saturday August 11, 2012 @07:05AM (#4369875)
Have you seen RecordStream? It's some good cli tools based on streams of json which might be handy.

https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream

I've used it a lot and it's a godsend for a most "record-y" manipulation.

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Re:Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson by alexlarsson on Saturday August 11, 2012 @03:36AM (#4369678)
A textual format needs parsing though at every stage in the pipeline. Thats why I think using an (optional, when supported) binary format is important.
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