Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 08:17:59 +0200 From: Erik Cederstrand <erik+lists@cederstrand.dk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [GSoC] Machine readable output from userland utilities Message-ID: <E9594D41-64FE-4957-98FD-4E52BCCB2598@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <537C2993.1060206@mu.org> References: <49E9736E-AD14-4647-8B15-30603D01360C@mail.bg> <91FE2526-F21C-42AB-BECB-058DBA975A9E@cederstrand.dk> <537C2993.1060206@mu.org>
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Den 21/05/2014 kl. 06.20 skrev Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>: > In all seriousness though, the real target is people writing higher level languages (than shell) on top of FreeBSD. Perhaps python or ruby spawning a utility and then that utility making the output easy to read. If that's the use case, than I'm fine with this. I often find I need to combine Python and shell output (working with dates in shell is horrible, for example), and formalized output would simplify some scripts considerably. Erik
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