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Output formats

The output contract every command shares: formats, fields, and templates.

Every list command in the fleet renders through one formatter, so the same flags work everywhere. Wire your commands through it as you add them, and this page describes what users get. Pick a format with -o, or let orv choose: a table when writing to a terminal, JSONL when piped.

Formats

orv <command> -o table   # aligned columns for reading
orv <command> -o jsonl   # one JSON object per line, for piping
orv <command> -o json    # a single JSON array
orv <command> -o csv     # spreadsheet friendly
orv <command> -o tsv     # tab-separated
orv <command> -o url     # just the URL column
orv <command> -o raw     # the underlying bytes, unformatted
Format Best for
table Reading on a terminal
jsonl Piping into another tool, one object at a time
json Loading a whole result as an array
csv / tsv Spreadsheets and quick column math
url Feeding URLs into other commands
raw The unformatted bytes (response bodies, file contents)

Narrowing columns

Keep only the fields you want:

orv <command> --fields id,title,url

--no-header drops the header row in table and csv output, which helps when a downstream tool expects bare rows.

Templating rows

For full control over each line, apply a Go text/template. Fields are the JSON keys, capitalised:

orv <command> --template '{{.URL}} {{.Title}}'

Why auto-detection helps

Because the default adapts to the destination, the same command reads well by hand and parses cleanly in a pipe:

orv <command>            # a table, because this is a terminal
orv <command> | wc -l    # JSONL, because this is a pipe

You only reach for -o when you want something other than that default.