Enable to remove all groups about pueue HOT 6 CLOSED

To be honest, I don't think that this should be handled via a new commandline option, as this is a very specific use case.

It sounds like you're heavily relying on scripting to add and remove large amounts of jobs that're then assigned to several groups.

Since I don't see this in a "normal" use case scenario and since this is easily scriptable, you should probably do it that way.

However, I'm open to exposing the list of groups via json, i.e. pueue group -j.
That way, you can iterate through all groups check for each group via pueue status -g $group -j status!=running whether there're any tasks and delete it, if they're not.

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Would a pueue group -j help you with your scripting setup?

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Hi, @Nukesor

I'm sorry, I couldn't understand what you mean.

There's no option -j for pueue group.

Does it mean that are you willing to support (make) the option like pueue group -j?

If such option is available, it would be nice.

I currently clean groups (assuming jobs are not running) to re-launch the script with the same group names:

pueue group | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n 1 pueue group remove

Thank you.

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Yes, I'm offering to add a -j/--json option for the pueue group subcommand, so it's easier to do scripting :)

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Hi, @Nukesor

Thank you. I really appreciate it.

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I'll track this in the newly created issue to avoid confusion :)

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