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New Parser: nmcli

See original GitHub issue

Awesome work! I’ve already used jc for some ifconfig work. Along the same line I’d think nmcli would be a handy one. If I find some time this weekend I can take a stab at it.

Thanks again!

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kellyjonbrazilcommented, Jan 21, 2022

Hi @sebastian-burlacu! No worries. I decided against creating parsers for iproute2 for a few reasons:

It already had some JSON output capability at the time I started jc, so I didn’t want to give the iproute2 developers an excuse to stop/slow-down enhancing the capability by having a workaround using jc
I created parsers for other legacy commands that provided the same or similar output (e.g. route, ifconfig)
Newer versions of iproute2 now have good JSON output support

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bobpaulcommented, Sep 28, 2021

Not sure if this helps any, but I’ve been able to ~use~ abuse the generic yaml parser on some of nmcli outputs. Example, to get the APN configured on a cellular connection:

$ nmcli c show wan |  jc --yaml | jq --raw-output '.[0]."gsm.apn"'
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