Response processing? about ain HOT 2 CLOSED

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Response processing is not part of ain simply because there are other tools that do this way better - like jq.
Connecting them in a pipe is the way to go (sticking with the linux principle of doing one thing well).

But you can solve your problem by either creating a shell-function:

gethits () { ain "$@" | jq .hits.total.value }

And call it as you would with ain - gethits template1.ain template2.ain etc

Or create a shell-file, like gethits.sh, make it executable and put it on your $PATH, then same as above

#!/bin/sh
ain "$@" | jq .hits.total.value

As for the pretty-printing, httpie should pretty print json-responses by default, or you can create another bash-function where you pipe it into jq.

Hope that helps!

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Cool, thanks for the clarification! I'll continue the pipe approach.

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