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I've been thinking about making something like this for a while, this is great! I always thought it was weird that "do one thing and one thing well" stopped sh
by kevinmgranger 6y ago
I've been thinking about making something like this for a while, this is great!
I always thought it was weird that "do one thing and one thing well" stopped short of dealing with tree representations on the commandline.
- globular-toast 6y agoWhat do you mean? The only reason this didn't exist is nobody did it yet. It doesn't contradict "do one thing and do it well".
- macintux 6y agoFor me, the problem isn’t that it doesn’t do one thing well, which is clearly does, it’s that there are no other tools to process trees. So it fits well with the UNIX ethos of a small tool doing one thing well, but not so much the concept of pipelines, which is closely related. Obviously not this tool’s fault.
- eevilspock 6y agoI does take advantage of pipelines, as long as it is on the end. You can use awk, sed, cut, sort, grep and a hose of other tools to massage the data before it gets put into graph form. To become the front-end of a pipe requires that its or some other hierarchical format become an effective standard shared by a number of tools. It can happen.