cbonsai VS jq

So there’s this awesome CLI tool called cbonsai that generates a random bonsai tree, and it is incredible.

there’s cbonsai for all you terminal enthusiasts. for years, I’ve wanted to add options for species / style/ container but I am merely a Python dev. surely someone in this sub knows enough C to take that script to the next level.

Don't worry. It's Cbonsai.

that's exa instead of ls there, cbonsai, and dt's shell color scripts, pipes-rs

It’s the awesome cbonsai.

An adorable fast fetch for screenshots. Goes well with cbonsai.

You can find the program here: https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai

That should recursively list directories, counting only the files within each, and output² jsonl that can be further mangled within the shell². You could just as easily populate an associative array for further work, or $whatever. Unlike bash, zsh has reasonable behaviour around quoting and whitespace too.

¹ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.ht...

² https://github.com/jpmens/jo

³ https://github.com/stedolan/jq

What I miss from jq and what is implemented but unreleased is platform independent line delimiters.

jq on Windows produces \r\n terminated lines which can be annoying when used with Cygwin / MSYS2 / WSL. The '--binary' option to not convert line delimiters is one of those pending improvements.

https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/0dab2b18d73e561f511801...

If you have jq installed you can use it to make the output look nicer.

It requires jq for JSON processing and GNU parallel for concurrent searches in the notebooks.

jq is your friend.

The jq command (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) is useful pulling that information out.