Processing Semi-Structured Data in the Unix Shell

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Post by lordylord » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 6:33 AM UTC

Processing Semi-Structured Data in the Unix Shell
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Post by pwdisswordfish8 » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 2:05 PM UTC

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

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Post by gkfasdfasdf » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 3:10 PM UTC

pwdisswordfish8 wrote: post #2

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

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.

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Post by xiaq » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 4:21 PM UTC

pwdisswordfish8 wrote: post #2

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

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.

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Post by wadkar » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 8:11 AM UTC

Very interesting though it’s just reinventing the database wheel