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[Bob Proulx]

Hi Brian,

Brian Grossman wrote:
> Imagine bash friends with an option for more structure than arbitrarily
> formatted text.  I would occasionally like an option to emit json from many
> commands in order to avoid parsing.  As a poor example:
>
>     tree -Jp -L 3 | jq -r '.. | objects | select( .type? == "file" ) |
> .name | select( test( "[.]ini$" ))'
>
> is kinda-sorta-almost equivalent to
>
>     find -maxdepth 3 -type f -name \*.ini

It is equivalent to  this though.

    find . -maxdepth 3 -name '*.ini' -printf "%f\n"

Note that to make them reproducible we would need to sort the outputs
to ensure they have the same sort order for comparison.  "| sort" for
both of them would be good.

Since I don't work with jq everyday I find that set of commands
mystifying.  I am sure it would make sense if I were to use it more.
But isn't the json one requiring much more parsing?

Bob