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by AtlasBarfed 1329 days ago
I would also like to add for a better shell:

Please add another standard output stream.

stdout is for output

stderr is for error messages

stdlog for status/tracking, verbose output, event streams. Too often this gets shunted to stderr, and I don't want to logfile hunt. Other examples: download status from curl, verbose output flags in things like ssh and other comm programs that need configuration debugging on the regular, and others.

Nushell seems to also focus on json output for commands. I think this should be a requirement pushed into all unix commands that do output (LS! please please please a json output flag for simple ls which CANNOT BE PARSED RELIABLY).