I meant tools like jq. I hardly ever use it as it’s hard to use and as a result I forget it making it even harder to use. The same applies to awk, sed, etc. Any tool with a bunch of command line flags and hard to understand arguments and syntax will always be low on my “want to use” list. Ripgrep is a prime example of how to build a command line app that is easy to use every time without trying to remember a billion things.
One of our data providers gives us hundred megabyte json files. Whenever there is a problem with the data they request examples, jq is invaluable in those instances.
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joyjoy@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y
For everything else, there's
yq,xq, andtomlq.snowe@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
I use all these tools so little that I have to relearn them every single time, making them much less useful to me than they would be otherwise.
kogasa@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
yq is a wrapper around jq iirc and has the same syntax, but it do yaml.
Small disclaimer that i think there may be 2 tools known as yq and this is only true of one of them.
snowe@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
I meant tools like jq. I hardly ever use it as it’s hard to use and as a result I forget it making it even harder to use. The same applies to awk, sed, etc. Any tool with a bunch of command line flags and hard to understand arguments and syntax will always be low on my “want to use” list. Ripgrep is a prime example of how to build a command line app that is easy to use every time without trying to remember a billion things.
curiousaur@reddthat.com · -4 pts · 2y
JSON > Yaml
CmdrKeen@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2y
And
jc, apparently: https://programming.dev/post/7063427mrkite@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
One of our data providers gives us hundred megabyte json files. Whenever there is a problem with the data they request examples,
jqis invaluable in those instances.superbirra@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 2y
yeah,
ls | while read file; do echo blabla $file; done