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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoAfaik from my limited interaction with bash: At least you have proper datatypes.
Isnt bash essentially treating everything like a string and it’s up to you to resolve that?
rbos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Pretty much, though I use a lot of jq these days and many tools support json output and input. I’d love to see that paradigm expanded for more Unix tools. Maybe a new kind of pipe symbol for shells that implies strict json objects.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not sure if you know of it, but I found this a while back and it helped me a lot: github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
rbos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh, that is interesting.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nushell?