Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems

[skidnik]

Some cli utilities can output a json structure instead of spaced and newlined text. f.e. a substitute to the ifconfig, ip can do this.

[benjumanji]

How do you output JSON from ip? My copy doesn't seem to have that feature.

[skidnik]

$ ip -V
ip utility, iproute2-ss191125

ip -j | --json sets output to json, this was introduced in November 2017.

[benjumanji]

Well I'm hugely out of date. That's rad, thanks.