svn commit: r284198 - head/bin/ls

[Bryan Drewery]

On 6/14/15 3:17 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2015, at 3:00, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 05:13:31PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>> 
>>> The people I talk to use scripting languages like Python or
>>> Ruby, and devops frameworks like Ansible, Saltstack, Puppet,
>>> and Chef. They may do some quick prototyping and UI work with
>>> Javascript and HTML/CSS. Being able to generate JSON directly
>>> from system-level tools, and then analyze that in a Python
>>> script,
>> 
>> You need JSON from system-level tools for analyze that in a
>> Python script? Realy? Not plain text? or tab/space separated?
> 
> Having written a bunch of tools that parse plaintext, it’s a pain
> in the rear. It’s far easier to have JSON and a schema for working
> with that JSON when developing tools to parse things out.
> 
> Programmers are inherently lazy — the more we have to make them
> work, the more pushback we’re going to get from them as far as
> integrating FreeBSD’s concerned.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

For 'w' it makes sense, for 'ls' why? Most, all?, scripting languages
have globbing and file listing functions already so there's no need to
run /bin/ls and parse it.

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Regards,
Bryan Drewery