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by Arnavion 2287 days ago
libxo is doing a good job for FreeBSD. It would be nice if Linux also adapts that, or something similar, one day.

Eg I have a script that needs output from netstat, and `netstat -bin --libxo json | jq ...` is a great way to get that info instead of scraping the human-readable output.
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kbrazil 2286 days ago
It would be great to have libxo in linux!

FYI, `jc netstat` also generates JSON output for `netstat`.

(disclosure: I'm the author of `jc`)

While I'm at it... check out `jtbl` on my github which prints the JSON or JSON Lines output to a table in your terminal.

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jtbl

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touisteur 2287 days ago
Sorry, stupid question, but why not use /proc/net directly?
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naniwaduni 2287 days ago
/proc is a linuxism.
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touisteur 2286 days ago
Yes... But even on Linux I've been bitten so much by changes in 'standard' tools just on successive versions of centos, the last 10 years... ifconfig changing its output syntax (I know 'just use ip' well it changes sometimes too...), hostname sets a transient hostname now, hostnames with _ are now refused... netstat had some subtle changes some time ago too. free changed too. df, fricking df output format changed. So now, I just hit /proc and /sys, and document the hell out of it. Sure, new fields can appear there but they're new columns. The parser has to handle 'additional' columns. I trust Linus more with not-breaking-userland than the folks that make 'portable' tools.

Glad I don't have to support other OSes...

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