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ammario opened this issue May 6, 2022 · 1 comment · Fixed by #1363
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Terminal "niceties" make it difficult to script coder #1322

ammario opened this issue May 6, 2022 · 1 comment · Fixed by #1363
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ammario commented May 6, 2022 •
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We know that many of our customers build automation around the CLI. We should expect this behavior to continue in v2.

This table style makes such workflows quite difficult:
Screen Shot 2022-05-06 at 11 12 01 AM

For example, if I want to use simple head:

Screen Shot 2022-05-06 at 11 12 29 AM

Or... I want everyone's usernames:
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Solutions

  1. Replace all nice tables with a traditional UNIX format
  2. Emit traditional UNIX table when stdout is not a TTY
  3. Add global flag (e.g --csv) to coerce all output into a machine-friendly format

In the interest of MVP, I think 1 is best.
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I'll be adjusting this to use a kubernetes-similar table format!

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fix: Match kubectl table style for simpler scripting
13439a7 
Fixes #1322.
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fix: Match kubectl table style for simpler scripting
6e65e6f 
Fixes #1322.
kylecarbs added a commit that referenced this issue May 10, 2022
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fix: Match kubectl table style for simpler scripting (#1363)
e0a7aec 
Fixes #1322.
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fix: Match kubectl table style for simpler scripting (#1363)
f188df1 
Fixes #1322.
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