First release of oi is ready for testing. oi is an experimental command line tool to convert structured data from one format into another. The first release comes with rudimentary support for CSV, JSON, XML, YML and JSON-LD. The basic idea is to provide a straight in-out/out-in command that might not work completely correct but complements with other tools (jq, xsltproc,  sed, grep, awk, etc. ) to manipulate structured data on the command line.

Install

wget https://schnasse.org/deb/oi_0.0.1.deb
sudo apt install ./oi_0.0.1.deb # installs openjdk-11-jre

Example Usage

1. Convert passwd to yml (use -t to print different formats)

oi /etc/passwd -d":" --header="login,password,uid,gid,comment,home,shell" -icsv

2. List some disk info in yml (use -t to print different formats)

lsblk |grep -o sd.*|awk '{print $1 ";" $4 ";" $NF}'|oi -d";" --header="device,size,mount" -icsv

3. Create adhoc Json-Ld Context for some arbitrary Json-API

curl https://api.github.com/users/jschnasse|oi -ijson -tcontext