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rmetzler on April 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gron: A command line tool that makes JSON greppabl...

> Also, " = " is a bit annoying. I'd prefer ": ":

    .foo.bar[0].baz: this is a\ntwo-line string

The output of gron is perfect valid JavaScript. It wouldn't be that way with `:` as key-value delimiter.

cryptonector on April 4, 2018 [–]

I see. And, indeed, it's perfectly valid jq as well...

Mind you, one should not eval code to parse data. So I count this as a minus.

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