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The standard for plain text output in the terminal is and has always been TSV.
by fao_ 9y ago
The standard for plain text output in the terminal is and has always been TSV.
- nnq 9y ago...and how does one do nested/tree-like data in TSV? One doesn't, only just ad-hoc invents something akin to sexps or json but unstandardized. Real-world data rarely has a natural fit for "tabl
- fao_ 9y agoHow many standard UNIX programs do you know that output tree data? And almost always you can find an alternative to non-tree-based representation without having to reinvent sexprs. Look at how ps represents the process tree, for example.