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.
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.
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.