Comment Comment by lioeters > classic old Unix tools communicates with plain text streams. Smarter, new commandline tools tend to provide at least JSONAnd JSON is plain text. If new tools agree to communicate by passing JSON around, it would be in the spirit of the UNIX principles. parent lioeters 3 years ago
And JSON is plain text. If new tools agree to communicate by passing JSON around, it would be in the spirit of the UNIX principles.