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I like using `jq` to create line-delimited JSON and then using a language I know well (Node) to process it after that point. I find `jq '.[] | select(.location=="Stockholm")'` less readable than something like `nq --filter '({location}) => location === "Stockholm"'` because I'm much more used to Node syntax. - https://github.com/thisredone/rb is a widely used ruby version of this idea - https://github.com/KelWill/nq#readme is something similar that I wrote for my own use

Here's the ruby equivalent: https://github.com/thisredone/rb

These would be really easy if I could use my little tool [1] [1] https://github.com/thisredone/rb

Totally agree. On a related note, I came across a similar thing just the other day for rubyists: https://github.com/thisredone/rb Probably not as fast as many of the individual unix tools it could replace, but does look like a great way to leverage one's knowledge of ruby.

I never really got to be a command line wizard even after 7 years of using it daily. After some time it struck me that I am somewhat of a wizard in Ruby and most of the things that I need to to in the terminal would be really easy for me if I could make use of my Ruby skills in a more natural way. I came up with rb [1] which made it possible and I no longer read man pages of simple unix tools [1] https://github.com/thisredone/rb

ls | rb 'group_by { |x| x[/\d+/] }.select { |_, y| y.one? }.keys' https://github.com/thisredone/rb

Yeah, and it's not even getting the code from an official source; it's coming from a random bit.ly link [created by a contributor][1]. I've [submitted a PR][2] to inline the install script in the README. [1]: https://github.com/thisredone/rb/pull/5 [2]: https://github.com/thisredone/rb/pull/8

Someone did a PR[1] with something similar. He also found a way to speed things up by creating a Proc first and feeding it to the eval instead of the string. [1] https://github.com/thisredone/rb/pull/2