Re: [GSoC] Machine readable output from userland utilities

Den 21/05/2014 kl. 06.20 skrev Alfred Perlstein <[e-mail]>:

> 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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