Thank you all for the feedback; it does seem like consistent structured
output is an idea whose time is overdue.
- mhoye
On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM Collin Funk wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Mike Hoye writes:
>
> > Hello, coreutils people -
> >
> > I am wondering if there is any appetite for addi
On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 03:34:02PM -0700, Collin Funk wrote:
> There was a similar request a few weeks ago [1].
I did not like that, a lot of ugly stuff just to try to get backwards
compatibility -- IMHO far better to have a --json-output option and accept that
it will not work on old machines.
Hi Mike,
Mike Hoye writes:
> Hello, coreutils people -
>
> I am wondering if there is any appetite for adding jsonlines as an output
> format in the various core utilities. A common structured-output format in
> low level tools would make tool chaining and constructive exploration
> significantl
Hello, coreutils people -
I am wondering if there is any appetite for adding jsonlines as an output
format in the various core utilities. A common structured-output format in
low level tools would make tool chaining and constructive exploration
significantly easier.
Thank you,
- mhoye
Hi,
I've read the list of the rejected feature requests and I believe
my feature request does not fit exactly in any of those listed,
although there might be some similarities with some of those.
Anyway, the feature I would find helpful in the "chmod
