On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:11:26AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 8/29/22 2:03 PM, tetsu...@scope-eye.net wrote:
It would also help greatly if the shell could internally handle
hierarchical data in variables.
That's a fundamental change. There would have to be a better reason to
make it than handling JSON.
I've only a little interest in handling JSON natively in bash (jq usually
gets me there), but I have a strong interest in handling hierarchical data
(h-data) in bash.
I admit I've only had a few cases where I've been jumping through hoops to
manage h-data in bash, but that's because, once it's clear h-data is a
natural way to manage an issue, I would normally handle the problem in
perl rather than trying to force clunky constructs into a bash script. In
perl I use h-data all the time. I'm sure if h-data were available in bash
I'd be using it all the time there as well.
Chris
