libXO-ification - Why - and is it a symptom of deeper issues?

[Jan Bramkamp]

On 15/11/15 13:54, Dan Partelly wrote:
> 2. I have seen the idea that this makes the information dumped by utilities in the base easily accessible programatically. OK, maybe it does , but
> it doesn't fit with the current paradigm of "tool | filter | tool” at all. There are no tools able to accept JSON and filter it in any meaningful way, and I
> dont see too many ppl changing their code to read JSON instead of text.  I don't even see the base tools changing. This output may be useful in corner cases only.

There is jq [https://stedolan.github.io/jq/]. You can think of it as sed 
+ awk + grep for streams of JSON objects.