On 1 March 2015 at 22:10, Allan Jude <allanj...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2015-03-01 13:49, Harrison Grundy wrote: > > Thanks! > > > > That does seem useful, but I'm not sure I see the reasoning behind > > putting into base, over a port or package, since processing XML in base > > is a pain, and it can't serve up JSON or HTML without additional > > utilities anyway. > > > > (If I'm reviving a long-settled thing, let me know and I'll drop it. I'm > > trying to understand the use case for this.) > > > > --- Harrison > > > > On 03/01/15 10:31, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Harrison Grundy < > >> harrison.gru...@astrodoggroup.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> If someone could summarize what this is, I'd greatly appreciate it. > >>> > >> > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-July/015633.html > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > > > I think you're missing the important bit here. > > This isn't about adding a parser for anything, this is about making the > tools in base, like netstat, wc, uptime, etc, output in JSON or XML, so > you can use the data programmatically. > > Your scripts no longer have to rely on awk/sed/grep magic to get a > specific bit of information out of the uptime command, the command can > just output the data in a structured machine readable format. > > I am not sure how you can put netstat into the ports tree. > > > -- > Allan Jude > > Hi,
Do we have command-line tools in base which work with XML/JSON from stdin or file? -- Eir Nym _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
