json.sh
json.sh parses JSON in Bash-friendly form so it can be inspected, filtered, and processed in shell pipelines.
It walks the input structure and prints each path as a JSON array followed by the associated value, with minimal whitespace.
Install
$ bpkg install -g json.sh
Usage
$ json_parse < package.json
["name"] "JSON.sh"
["version"] "0.0.0"
["description"] ""
["homepage"] "http://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh"
["repository","type"] "git"
["repository","url"] "https://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh.git"
["repository"] {"type":"git","url":"https://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh.git"}
["bin","json_parse"] "./JSON.sh"
["bin"] {"json_parse":"./JSON.sh"}
["dependencies"] {}
# ... etc
# A more complex example:
curl registry.npmjs.org/express | ./JSON.sh | egrep '\["versions","[^"]*"\]'
Options
- -b Brief output. Combines ‘Leaf only’ and ‘Prune empty’ options.
- -l Leaf only. Only show leaf nodes, which stops data duplication.
- -p Prune empty. Exclude fields with empty values.
- -h Show help text.
Links
- Source Code (GitHub)
- Author: Dominic Tarr
- Packager: Joseph Werle
Install
bpkg install json.sh
Category
Author
Packager
Dependencies
No explicit dependencies.