Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
A lot of commands have output-formatter options. Life-savers when you don't want to have to write complex output-filters or when you want more-predictable or useful output.
And, where commands don't have output-formatters, they often have analogous tools that provide similar output-types but in more-useful (for the use-case) outputs.
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A lot of commands have output-formatter options. Life-savers when you don't want to have to write complex output-filters or when you want more-predictable or useful output.
And, where commands don't have output-formatters, they often have analogous tools that provide similar output-types but in more-useful (for the use-case) outputs.