[TUHS] Tech Sq elevator (Was: screen editors) [ really I think efficiency now ]

Derek Fawcus dfawcus+lists-tuhs at employees.org
Wed Jan 22 07:57:46 AEST 2020


On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 09:45:22AM -0600, Michael Parson wrote:
> 
> And here, understanding the model is important, namely, grep is the
> wrong tool for searching/parsing JSON output. Dealing with JSON from the
> shell, you should use jq.  I've been dragged kicking and screaming into
> dealing with JSON, and about all I can say about it is, I like it about
> this >< much more than XML. :)

If push comes to shove, one can always use xmlawk (xml extension for gawk)
to beat the latter in to submission.

DF


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