hrbrmstr, to random
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Today's regularly scheduled Drop is pretty redundant. By that I mean it talks about redundant ways of doing things at the CLI (and notes that, perhaps, it's a good thing in certain cases).

Drop (2023-11-20)

Redundancies Redux

— good-cat;
— which which is which;
— less is more

Read/sub: https://dailyfinds.hrbrmstr.dev/p/drop-374-2023-11-20-redundancies

jmcastagnetto,
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@hrbrmstr

Just had a flashback to the the olden times of , where I was awarded a by R. Schwarz at some point 🙂

(Just did some web-archeology and found it: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.shell/c/MZX7mK4_iqg/m/urjLcqyEE2UJ)

nilmethod, to til

python -m json.tool my_json.json to prettify json at the cli. i've done such shenanigans in the interpreter but never considered executing it with -m like one might for a temporary HTTP server or other niceties.

mjgardner,
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@nilmethod @postmodern jq . <foo.json

Here’s your award, reconstituted from @randalschwartz 1990s wisdom: https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award#uuk9letter

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