You may have already seen it but jc (https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/ https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/) helps with the first two: $ jc ls -l | jq [

You may have already seen it but jc (https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/ https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/) helps with the first two: $ jc ls -l | jq [ { "filename": "bin", "flags": "drwxr-xr-x", "links": 1, "owner": "nathanmcrae", "group": "nathanmcrae", "size": 4096, "date": "Jun 28 15:15" }, { "filename": "pkg", "flags": "drwxr-xr-x", "links": 1, "owner": "nathanmcrae", "group": "nathanmcrae", "size": 4096, "date": "Jun 28 15:15" } ]