Re: Structured (XML-like) input/output for shell apps?

[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br> wrote:
> > Well, if you can do it with Perl without overhead, you can of
> > course also do it without Perl without overhead.  In that case the
> > 'structured' support would be included
> 
> Not exactly. Don't get me wrong, object component technology is a
> great thing, standing just next to sliced bread in the list of great
> things, but (just like sliced bread) it does not cure cancer.
> 
> When I do my example inside of Perl, I am supposing whatever objects
> or handles the Perl interpreter has stay inside the interpreter's
> process; when you do a pipe like
> 
> monad-ls *.ab | monad-fields name, size | monad-tableout

If you do a pipe like that. But the functionality you showed in Perl
could also be done completely inside ls itself.