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> How are Python/Ruby/Perl going to give you structured objects from "ps"?

The usual answer would be "by parsing /proc instead and returning meaningful objects that expose the relevant parts of the OS" but why would you want to do that when you could just output the relevant data in easy to parse XML or JSON?




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