Processing Semi-Structured Data in the Unix Shell(weaselhat.com)

40 pointsby lordylord5 anni fa4 comments

Processing Semi-Structured Data in the Unix Shell

http://www.weaselhat.com/2021/06/29/processing-semi-structured-data-in-the-unix-shell/

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How does it distinguish between the Boolean value false and the string "false"?

xiaq5 anni fa

According to https://mgree.github.io/ffs/ffs.1.html, it tries to autodetect the type (so false will default to a boolean) but you can explicitly specify the type via extended attributes.

gkfasdfasdf5 anni fa

Good question. From the man page, looks like boolean values map to a file with contents either 'true' or 'false', while NULL values map to empty files.

wadkar5 anni fa

Very interesting though it’s just reinventing the database wheel