dog VS jc

Dog is cross platform and has some nice features, like json output.

https://dns.lookup.dog/

> As a user of the "--color" flag for the `ip` command, I'd love to see tools like dig produce more modern output

https://github.com/ogham/dog is pretty good in that regard

Alternatively, use dog (https://github.com/ogham/dog)

> dog www.readlang.com

A www.readlang.com. 1h59m16s 139.144.234.197

There's this, which is a more modern dig, with color output, among other things: https://github.com/ogham/dog

There's also stuff like this, which will postprocess & color output from any command: https://github.com/garabik/grc, or https://github.com/armandino/TxtStyle

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There's also doggo, which you can say is a bit of a dig at dog.

See also "dog" which I've been using for a while, works well. https://github.com/ogham/dog

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc - "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."

> I'd love to see programs communicate through a typed JSON/proto format that shed enough details to make this more independent, and get useful shell command structuring/completion or full blown GUIs from simply introspecting the expected input and output types.

You should try PowerShell. It's basically Microsoft's .NET ecosystem molded into an interactive command line. I'm not entirely sure if PoweShell can make full use of the static types that build up its core, but its ability to exchange objects in the command line is almost unmatched.

On Linux you can use `jc` (https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc) combined with `jq` (https://jqlang.github.io/jq/) to glue together command lines.

In addition to my previous comment about jq-like tools, I want to share a couple other interesting tools, which I use alongside jq are jo [0] and jc [1].

[0]: https://github.com/jpmens/jo

[1]: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

> I wanted to write some wrappers for the standard commands that automatically did all this via `jq`.

If you're not already aware of it, you may wish to check out `jc`[0] which describes itself as a "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..."

The `jc` documentation[1] & parser[2] for `ls` also demonstrates that reliable & cross-platform parsing of even "basic" commands can be non-trivial.

[0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

[1] https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/docs/parsers/ls

[2] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc/blob/4cd721be8595db52b6...