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flux job list should probably not be installed
Problem: it's easy to confuse flux job with flux jobs.
Perhaps flux job list, which outputs JSON, should just be a test program that is not installed (or a hidden command).
FYI, there is an optparse flag to hide subcommands. We should do the same for flux job list-inactive and flux job list-ids. I do find it useful sometimes to dump the raw JSON listing of jobs, but that can always be done with a trivial Python script, so I wouldn't object to making these all test-only commands.
Yeah I was just going to propose a PR that hides the subcommands, and also aborts if stdout is a tty (with a message to try flux-jobs(1)). Both John G and Trent hit this today, so it seemed like a problem.
and also aborts if stdout is a tty (with a message to try flux-jobs(1))
Oh, clever idea.
Danger: you are about to inhale JSON! It was remarkable how patient Trent was about this. ("can you tell me how to convert the userids to names?")