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Imagine if http APIs has similar output to lsof or df -h - nobody would write a script to use them! JSON makes a lot of sense, but a human-parseable format is a
by agjmills 5y ago
Imagine if http APIs has similar output to lsof or df -h - nobody would write a script to use them! JSON makes a lot of sense, but a human-parseable format is also needed.
- hnlmorg 5y agoYou're conflating two different concerns: 1. human review 2. scripting / automation In case one, human readable formats are obviously preferable. But the moment you need to script a command, you want it in a machine readable format. A perfect example of the differences between the two are how badly spaces in file names are handled. Granted POSIX deserve a lot of the blame here too.