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An awkward realization (startrek.website)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I mean, there's a point in data structure complexity where it's useful to use Python.

But as to dicts, sure. You're looking for zsh's "associative array". Bash has it too.

zsh

$ typeset -A mydict
$ mydict[foo]=bar 
$ echo $mydict[foo]
bar
$

bash

$ typeset -A mydict
$ mydict[foo]=bar
$ echo ${mydict[foo]}
bar
$
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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    This will do nicely - I had several workflows where I'd hit an API and get a massive super nested JSON as output; I'd use jq to get the specific data from the whole thing and do a bunch of stuff on this filtered data. I pretty much resigned to using python because I'd have successively complicated requirements and looking up how to do each new thing was slowing me down massively.

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