On 2015-03-01 19:20, Arseny Nasokin wrote: > On 1 March 2015 at 22:10, Allan Jude <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2015-03-01 13:49, Harrison Grundy wrote: >>> Thanks! >>> >>> That does seem useful, but I'm not sure I see the reasoning behind >>> putting into base, over a port or package, since processing XML in base >>> is a pain, and it can't serve up JSON or HTML without additional >>> utilities anyway. >>> >>> (If I'm reviving a long-settled thing, let me know and I'll drop it. I'm >>> trying to understand the use case for this.) >>> >>> --- Harrison >>> >>> On 03/01/15 10:31, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >>>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Harrison Grundy < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> If someone could summarize what this is, I'd greatly appreciate it. >>>>> >>>> >>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-July/015633.html >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> [email protected]" >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> [email protected]" >>> >> >> I think you're missing the important bit here. >> >> This isn't about adding a parser for anything, this is about making the >> tools in base, like netstat, wc, uptime, etc, output in JSON or XML, so >> you can use the data programmatically. >> >> Your scripts no longer have to rely on awk/sed/grep magic to get a >> specific bit of information out of the uptime command, the command can >> just output the data in a structured machine readable format. >> >> I am not sure how you can put netstat into the ports tree. >> >> >> -- >> Allan Jude >> >> > Hi, > > Do we have command-line tools in base which work with XML/JSON from stdin > or file? > > -- Eir Nym > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" >
Not really, although there are libraries for such (bsdxml, libucl which can read JSON) in base. I am working on a tool that can do some of this: https://github.com/allanjude/uclcmd/ -- Allan Jude
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