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CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.

55 mentions on Hacker News by 41 people: 8 stories, 47 comments · first 2020-02-21 · latest 2025-11-12

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  1. https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc was posted in another comment; it appears to be exactly that.
    comment by matt_kantor · 2020-03-18 · in Curl will now output JSON
  2. Have you seen jc[0] as an effort to wrap common utilities to output json? [0]: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
    comment by ayyess · 2020-03-17 · in Curl will now output JSON
  3. https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc can come pretty handy there
    comment by BaltoRouberol · 2020-03-17 · in Text Processing in the Shell
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    Jc: JSONify the output of Linux CLI tools for easier parsing in scripts
    story by pcr910303 · 2020-02-21 · 0 comments
  5. There's jc [1], that can return the JSON output of standard Linux CLI tools. [1] - https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
    comment by bkq · 2020-02-21 · in Unix Toolbox (2008)