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* Allow user to specify the indentation setting on the pretty flag for the to json command * Use "JSON" over "json"
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45 lines
2.4 KiB
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# to json
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Converts table data into JSON text.
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## Flags
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* `-p`, `--pretty` \<integer>: Formats the JSON text with the provided indentation setting
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## Example
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```shell
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> shells
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━━━┯━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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# │ │ name │ path
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───┼───┼────────────┼────────────────────────
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0 │ X │ filesystem │ /home/shaurya
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1 │ │ filesystem │ /home/shaurya/Pictures
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2 │ │ filesystem │ /home/shaurya/Desktop
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━━━┷━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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> shells | to json
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[{" ":"X","name":"filesystem","path":"/home/shaurya"},{" ":" ","name":"filesystem","path":"/home/shaurya/Pictures"},{" ":" ","name":"filesystem","path":"/home/shaurya/Desktop"}]
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```
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```shell
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> open sgml_description.json
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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glossary
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────────────────
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[table: 1 row]
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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> open sgml_description.json | to json
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{"glossary":{"title":"example glossary","GlossDiv":{"title":"S","GlossList":{"GlossEntry":{"ID":"SGML","SortAs":"SGML","GlossTerm":"Standard Generalized Markup Language","Acronym":"SGML","Abbrev":"ISO 8879:1986","Height":10,"GlossDef":{"para":"A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.","GlossSeeAlso":["GML","XML"]},"Sections":[101,102],"GlossSee":"markup"}}}}}
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```
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We can also convert formats !
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```shell
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> open jonathan.xml
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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rss
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────────────────
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[table: 1 row]
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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> open jonathan.xml | to json
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{"rss":[{"channel":[{"title":["Jonathan Turner"]},{"link":["http://www.jonathanturner.org"]},{"link":[]},{"item":[{"title":["Creating crossplatform Rust terminal apps"]},{"description":["<p><img src=\"/images/pikachu.jpg\" alt=\"Pikachu animation in Windows\" /></p>\n\n<p><em>Look Mom, Pikachu running in Windows CMD!</em></p>\n\n<p>Part of the adventure is not seeing the way ahead and going anyway.</p>\n"]},{"pubDate":["Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000"]},{"link":["http://www.jonathanturner.org/2015/10/off-to-new-adventures.html"]},{"guid":["http://www.jonathanturner.org/2015/10/off-to-new-adventures.html"]}]}]}]}
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```
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