TL;DR: It would be cool if all CLI apps supported JSON output, but in the meantime we can use jc

  • Not to piss on anyones parade here, but grepping something out of a json structure is one of the most asked questions for jq as well. Of course json is nice, but if the goal is to simplify data extraction, I’m not sure much will be gained by this.

    As far as reducing the toolchain necessary to extract the same data, this is a welcome addition.