Fun with terminal plotting JSON data at the command line
One of the great thing about unix is the ability to pipe multiple programs together to manipulate data. Plain, unstructured text is the most common type of data that is passed between programs, but these days JSON is becoming more popular.
I thought it would be fun to pipe together some command line JSON tools to do some stupid terminal tricks, like plotting a graph of system statistics, like CPU or memory utilization.
We can use jc (disclosure: I wrote jc), jq, and jp to pull the output of uptime and display a line graph like this:
In this post I'll show you how you can build a quick bar graph of the CPU utilization of the top processes right in the terminal. For more information on how to create the animated line graph above, see my blog post at blog.kellybrazil.com.
first, get jc, jq, and jp.
Then you can use this one-liner to graph the output of ps:
Fun stuff! jq is an awesome JSON tool for the cli and is a bit like sed or awk for JSON. You'll find lots of uses for manipulating JSON as more and more programs start to output in the format.
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json_pp
JSON_PP(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide JSON_PP(1)NAME
json_pp - JSON::PP command utility
SYNOPSIS
json_pp [-v] [-f from_format] [-t to_format] [-json_opt options_to_json]
DESCRIPTION
json_pp converts between some input and output formats (one of them is JSON). This program was copied from json_xs and modified.
The default input format is json and the default output format is json with pretty option.
OPTIONS -f
-f from_format
Reads a data in the given format from STDIN.
Format types:
json
as JSON
eval
as Perl code
-t
Writes a data in the given format to STDOUT.
null
no action.
json
as JSON
dumper
as Data::Dumper
-json_opt
options to JSON::PP
Acceptable options are:
ascii latin1 utf8 pretty indent space_before space_after relaxed canonical allow_nonref
allow_singlequote allow_barekey allow_bignum loose escape_slash
-v
Verbose option, but currently no action in fact.
-V
Prints version and exits.
EXAMPLES
$ perl -e'print q|{"foo":"XX","bar":1234567890000000000000000}|' |
json_pp -f json -t dumper -json_opt pretty,utf8,allow_bignum
$VAR1 = {
'bar' => bless( {
'value' => [
'0000000',
'0000000',
'5678900',
'1234'
],
'sign' => '+'
}, 'Math::BigInt' ),
'foo' => "x{3042}x{3044}"
};
$ perl -e'print q|{"foo":"XX","bar":1234567890000000000000000}|' |
json_pp -f json -t dumper -json_opt pretty
$VAR1 = {
'bar' => '1234567890000000000000000',
'foo' => "x{e3}x{81}x{82}x{e3}x{81}x{84}"
};
SEE ALSO
JSON::PP, json_xs
AUTHOR
Makamaka Hannyaharamitu, <makamaka[at]cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2010 by Makamaka Hannyaharamitu
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.16.2 2013-08-25 JSON_PP(1)