I'd argue this is more about quacking like a PowerShell than manipulating xSV/JSON in the pipeline. So here's my quick bunch of links that show the demand for t

I'd argue this is more about quacking like a PowerShell than manipulating xSV/JSON in the pipeline. So here's my quick bunch of links that show the demand for that. Here people emulate formatted and filtered ps(1) using GVariants and a bunch of CLI tools: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2012/08/10/rethinking-the-shell-pipeline/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2012/08/10/rethinking-the-shel... Here people use SQL to query and format data right from the shell: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect https://github.com/facebook/osquery https://github.com/facebook/osquery Also, libxo is a library that allows tools like ls(1) in FreeBSD to generate data in various formats (e.g. JSON): https://wiki.freebsd.org/LibXo https://wiki.freebsd.org/LibXo (edit: formatting)