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Just out of old habits, tend to try do everything first with the core bin tools and then jq. Not saying jq is not useful ... Command: echo "SAP-samples/clou

• mdaniel 4y ago
  seq --separator=, 1 1 That is the longest way I've ever seen of writing "1" in my life. Bonus points: on Linux, it just is "1\n", versus Mac it's "1," (with no trailing newline) Is there some story to that?
  • desktopninja 4y ago
    DOH! Sharp eye :) The original was: TARGET_FILE=~tomcat/logs/access.log tail \ --lines 1 ${TARGET_FILE} | \ column \ --json \ --table-name ACCESS_LOG \ --table-columns $(seq --separator=, 1 48) And the story behind it is a bit silly but memorable. To keep things fun, our ENG team does "left field challenges" and this one was "using only core bin tools, how would you get the field numbers and field values of the tomcat access log file in json format". Its memorable because not long after the code was posted in the ENG chat, we had a PRD incident and some team members used it and found it useful.
• qmacro 4y ago
  (Author of post here) Imposing constraints upon oneself is not a bad thing at all, I enjoy that approach (which was also why this time I constrained myself to `jq`). I didn't know that `column` could do so much, thanks for the pointer, btw.