sycli list: Allow to receive input

[alexherbo2]

It may be nice if sycli list could build an ASCII table from a JSON list.

sycli list | <filter> | sycli list

Example – Sorting:

sycli list |
jq-sort-by-name |
sycli list

Example – Grepping:

sycli list |
jq-select-one-piece-resources |
sycli list

[evanrichter]

cool idea, but I don't think sycli is meant to be a JSON -> ascii table tool

you could try using just jq itself like this answer

[alexherbo2]

Yep, I think also it is out of the scope of sycli. Just wanted to throw the idea because I actually wanted to do some filtering and it is not as easy as filtering lines with sort or grep (if we want to keep the ASCII table).

[evanrichter]

true, ascii tables aren't very unix like anyway. to fit in better with standard unix tools like sort/grep then we should just output tabulated data like the output of ps

[evanrichter]

the change here would be pretty minimal: prettytable-rs has an undecorated format predefined

[Luminarys]

Yea I'm in favor here of allowing a raw output, as noted it should be a fairly simple change.