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by kybernetikos 1004 days ago
It's actually something that bothers me about nushell. The assumption seems to be that you have to parse the output of external commands. I think that ideally there should be some metadata that an executable could have to indicate that it can output structured data and nushell could pick it up without the user having to explicitly parse it. That way you could write commands that work on other shells but work better on shells that understand structured data.