https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/wired-access/suggestion-for-structured-cli/m-p/120799#M28 <P>Hi all</P><P>I decided to post this in the developer forum because looked appropriate.&nbsp;</P><P>I recently had the joy of writing python code for XIQ-SE and EXOS. They tried to extract data from cli and automate ZTP+ with commands not available in XIQ-SE alone and required by my deployments.</P><P>Writing any code like this is mostly straighforward except for one thing: the massive amount of time, and code that goes to writing and debugging regular expressions to read the CLI output.</P><P>As a suggestion that would reduce this friction point, I had a look at the <A href="https://www.nushell.sh/" target="_self">nuShell project</A> and their effort to create a 'structured shell'. I mean a shell whose output is readable by humans but also structured so it can be easily parsed by programs.&nbsp;</P><P>I think this would greatly help amateur coders like me write simple code to EXOS without having to&nbsp; become regular expressions ninjas.</P><P>I hope Extreme would consider this in order to enhance adoption of coding and automation practices in&nbsp; their OSes</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:51:34 GMT Salva_ferrer 2025-11-19T14:51:34Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/wired-access/suggestion-for-structured-cli/m-p/120799#M28 <P>Hi all</P><P>I decided to post this in the developer forum because looked appropriate.&nbsp;</P><P>I recently had the joy of writing python code for XIQ-SE and EXOS. They tried to extract data from cli and automate ZTP+ with commands not available in XIQ-SE alone and required by my deployments.</P><P>Writing any code like this is mostly straighforward except for one thing: the massive amount of time, and code that goes to writing and debugging regular expressions to read the CLI output.</P><P>As a suggestion that would reduce this friction point, I had a look at the <A href="https://www.nushell.sh/" target="_self">nuShell project</A> and their effort to create a 'structured shell'. I mean a shell whose output is readable by humans but also structured so it can be easily parsed by programs.&nbsp;</P><P>I think this would greatly help amateur coders like me write simple code to EXOS without having to&nbsp; become regular expressions ninjas.</P><P>I hope Extreme would consider this in order to enhance adoption of coding and automation practices in&nbsp; their OSes</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:51:34 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/wired-access/suggestion-for-structured-cli/m-p/120799#M28 Salva_ferrer 2025-11-19T14:51:34Z