I agree objects are way better than text for manipulating structured data. Python is great at this, so I use Mario to do it in the shell. https://github.com/pyt

I agree objects are way better than text for manipulating structured data. Python is great at this, so I use Mario to do it in the shell. https://github.com/python-mario/mario https://github.com/python-mario/mario For example, to sort filenames by length $ ls | mario apply 'sorted(x, key=len)' chain doc src bench extra AUTHORS LICENSE