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JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools
Someone on this site suggested that programs open another filehandle along with stdout and stderr (stdjson) for their json output which struck me as a way to make this work in a backwards-compatible fashion.
dotancohen
on Nov 3, 2022
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Even just a generic stdmeta would go a long way to defining _what_ is being output. Curl is the worst about this.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197809/propose-addi...
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