jshon is a JSON parser designed for maximum convenience within the shell.
It is designed to be as usable as possible from within the shell and replaces fragile adhoc parsers made from grep/sed/awk as well as heavyweight one-line parsers made from perl/python.
jshon loads JSON text from stdin, performs actions, then displays the last action on stdout. Some of the options output JSON, others output plain text meta information. Because Bash has very poor nested datastructures, jshon does not try to return a native Bash datastructure as a typical library would. Instead, jshon provides a history stack containing all the manipulations.
Each action takes the form of a short option. Some require arguments. While many instances of jshon can be piped through each other, actions should be chained sequentially to reduce calls.
jshon is free and open source software.
Website: https://github.com/keenerd/jshon
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Developer: Kyle Keen
License: MIT License
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