jc

Why we included this project

Unix command output is written for humans, not scripts, and jc exists to bridge that gap. It ships parsers for dozens of common CLI tools, file formats, and string types, converting their text into JSON, YAML, or Python dictionaries. You can pipe the result straight into jq or pull it into a Python script without hand-rolling regex. The same code works as a standalone command and as a library, and there's an Ansible filter plugin for playbooks that need to inspect command output. If you do shell scripting, configuration management, or network device automation, jc is a low-friction way to make legacy text machine-readable.