On 7 Aug 2012, at 11:21, James wrote: > The --xml flag was > suggested by someone in irc, as a stable alternative to parsing the > normal command line output (messy). A while ago I encountered a project that implemented a shell much like zsh, but all the shell built-ins (like ls) had self-describing (a bit like WSDL) JSON interfaces in addition to their usual ones. Struck me as a really excellent idea - so much time is wasted writing scripts to parse random cli tool output and reformat it. Of course I now can't find it... Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Creators of http://www.smartmessages.net/ UK info at hand CRM solutions marcus at synchromedia.co.uk | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk/
