Think ps, but then you’re able to navigate the output and perform additional functions We already have gtk, qt, appkit, win32, web based frontends for almost e

Think ps, but then you’re able to navigate the output and perform additional functions We already have gtk, qt, appkit, win32, web based frontends for almost everything, and none of them produced anything remotely interoperable. The main advantage of just text is that you see its structure right there in a terminal and may reason about it without referring to the documentation of ps result-related set of structures with all the possible bells and whistles embedded into a large xml-like document schema (which is of course full of legacy and references to other specs, because compatibility and standardization).