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If you could use JSON in the terminal, then applications would have a uniform way of passing in options.

ls [long, {sort: {size: -1}}]

grep [recursive, color]

If we could intercept arguments to commands, we could translate them into the corresponding flags.

The problem is that terminals don't like these characters.

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