[dbdoskey]

As long as the command supports some structured output, such as json, it is very easy to get back the magic.

I have written a bunch of scripts that basically manages my whole home server using podman by leveraging `podman --output=json`. Most new tools support json output that make it easy, and by adding an alias that adds the `--output=json | from json` (or the equivalent for each command) it works pretty much the way you would expect.

For others that don't, you just need to add a little parsing to kick it off. Here are some examples on their github[0]. Once you have what works, just add it as an internal command, and it's a "fixed" problem.

I personally prefer nushell's method, as it allowed me to add tools that do some more advanced stuff pretty quickly.

[0] https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/2029

[hnlmorg]

You can do that in Murex too. In fact it's even easier than the examples given because Murex expects STDOUT to be structural data by default. You just need to tell it what the format is if the pipeline isn't type cast by default.

I don't have Windows to test Windows `netcat` on but the Murex code would look something like this:

  netstat -ao -p tcp -b | [Proto..]r | tabulate --separator "  +" | [Proto "Local Address" "Foreign Address" State PID]

  # [Proto..]r -> select every line after the regexp expression "Proto"
  # tabulate --separator "  +" -> by default columns are split on whitespace. But here we are saying use two or more spaces
  # [Proto "Local Address" "Foreign Address" State PID] -> selects columns (we already have column titles from `netstat` so why reinvent the wheel?)

Likewise with your `podman` examples, in murex this would look like:

  function podman {
      cast json
      exec podman --output=json @PARAMS
  }

You can even configure Murex REPL to only autocomplete commands that support JSON input from `podman`:

  method define podman %{ Stdout: json }

...so now when you type `podman | <tab>` you only see commands that are compatible with JSON.

I do have a lot of respect for Nushell but I've been using Murex as my primary shell for longer than Nushell has been around so a lot of these edge cases have been solved in Murex too. I just don't do a particularly great job at advertising it :)

[dbdoskey]

Fair enough. Though the difference between your netstat examples and the podman examples and the nushell examples are minimal at best. Even if I understand the difference of the implementation (between "coloring" the output, and parsing it).