### Please describe the problem.

if using addurl in --batch mode, there is no --json formatting and text output is somewhat inconsistent.  It might include "downloading ..." with 'ok' on a separate line, possibly with a msg on recording state in git, or within the same line report 'ok', or 'failed' in upcoming lines.  This complicates parsing of such output to verify correct operation for a given addurl pair

[[!format sh """

$> echo 'http://127.0.0.1:33369/about.txt about.txt' | git -c receive.autogc=false annex addurl --with-files --batch --debug 2>/dev/null
addurl about.txt (downloading http://127.0.0.1:33369/about.txt ...)                                                                     
ok
(recording state in git...)

$> echo 'http://127.0.0.1:33369/about.txt about.txt' | git -c receive.autogc=false annex addurl --with-files --batch --debug 2>/dev/null
addurl about.txt ok

$> echo 'http://127.0.0.1:33369/about.stxt about.txt' | git -c receive.autogc=false annex addurl --with-files --batch --debug 2>/dev/null 
addurl about.txt 
failed

"""]]

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[[!tag projects/datalad]]

> I've made --json work for addurl; I feel that's the way to go for parsing
> its output. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
