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[PATCH] describe: Fix 'format' option.

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Message #43 received at 33448 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33448 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#33448] [PATCH] describe: Add json format.
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 22:36:01 +0100

Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> Last question: what use case do you have in mind regarding the JSON
>> format?  I’m asking because we don’t have tools that can consume it so
>> far.
>
> Well, I wanted to get a command line way to select things in ‘guix
> channel’ output, e.g. to get a current ‘guix’ channel commit:
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix describe --profile=$HOME/.config/guix/current --format=json | jq --raw-output 'map(select(.name == "guix"))'[0].commit
>
>
> I didn't think that ‘recsel’ actually could be used in the same way:
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix describe --profile=$HOME/.config/guix/current --format=recutils | recsel -e 'name = "guix"' -P commit

I see, that makes sense.  It’s OK to have both JSON and recutils.

Thank you!

Ludo’.

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