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eviks 3 hours ago

What are the advantages over structured text?

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majewsky 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Access to a well-established set of tools for operating on unstructured text (coreutils, grep, sed, awk, etc.).

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eviks 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's not the benefit of text, just adoption. All these tools could've just as well grown to be popular with a proper format, and your point would be exactly the same

	▲	psd1 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You're damned right - much better is possible than the gnu tools. I'm one of the savages using pwsh on Linux (the other two are still on reddit). I have no need for sed/awk ascii salad, and jq can fuck off into the far distance.