parsing cli tables

[slavaGanzin]

Hello, Abhimanyu. Awesome tool.

I used eat before and I want to switch to sttr, because of more general use cases covered by it, and because it's a single binary cli. Checks all the boxes.

What I do a lot with eat is parsing standard CLI tables like ps or docker images:

$ ps | eat

[
  {
    "PID": "5424",
    "TTY": "pts/1",
    "TIME": "00:00:00",
    "CMD": "fish"
  },
  {
    "PID": "6183",
    "TTY": "pts/1",
    "TIME": "00:00:00",
    "CMD": "ps"
  },
  {
    "PID": "6184",
    "TTY": "pts/1",
    "TIME": "00:00:00",
    "CMD": "node"
  },
  {
    "PID": "6185",
    "TTY": "pts/1",
    "TIME": "00:00:00",
    "CMD": "xclipm"
  }
]

I use this as a preprocessing step before manipulating data with something like jq or fx

Actually, I implemented this in eat. Code is super easy, but it works.
antonmedv/eat@0c2bec8#diff-e727e4bdf3657fd1d798edcd6b099d6e092f8573cba266154583a746bba0f346R79-R81

Maybe you could look into it.

[abhimanyu003]

Hello @slavaGanzin
Thanks so much for your feedback and suggestion really appricate it.

I just installed eat. It seems to be breaking for me on mac

With docker images

I also tried couple of commands

ll | eat
ls -l | eat

Also what will happen if the table contains dash --- or === as row separation.

[slavaGanzin]

Thanks for investing time in this.

Yeah, right. I was using my own fork. Even if my PR was merged inside eat, the npm package was never really updated.

$ npm i -g slavaGanzin/eat

$ ps | eat                                                                                                                                          [
  {
    "PID": "58382",
    "TTY": "pts/4",
    "TIME": "00:00:02",
    "CMD": "fish"
  },
  {
    "PID": "62264",
    "TTY": "pts/4",
    "TIME": "00:00:00",
    "CMD": "ps"
  },
  {
    "PID": "62265",
    "TTY": "pts/4",
    "TIME": "00:00:00",
    "CMD": "nodem"
  }
]

Also what will happen if the table contains dash --- or === as row separation.

Usually, programs that render pretty tables, like this, has --json key :)
But you can substitute all table ascii symbols with spaces and that's it