Luminarys/synapse

sycli list: Allow to receive input

alexherbo2 opened this issue · 5 comments

alexherbo2 commented

It may be nice if sycli list could build an ASCII table from a JSON list.

sycli list | <filter> | sycli list

Example – Sorting:

sycli list |
jq-sort-by-name |
sycli list

Example – Grepping:

sycli list |
jq-select-one-piece-resources |
sycli list
evanrichter commented

cool idea, but I don't think sycli is meant to be a JSON -> ascii table tool

you could try using just jq itself like this answer

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alexherbo2 commented

Yep, I think also it is out of the scope of sycli. Just wanted to throw the idea because I actually wanted to do some filtering and it is not as easy as filtering lines with sort or grep (if we want to keep the ASCII table).

evanrichter commented

true, ascii tables aren't very unix like anyway. to fit in better with standard unix tools like sort/grep then we should just output tabulated data like the output of ps

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evanrichter commented

the change here would be pretty minimal: prettytable-rs has an undecorated format predefined

Luminarys commented

Yea I'm in favor here of allowing a raw output, as noted it should be a fairly simple change.