Read JSON data in a shell script [duplicate]
There is jq for parsing json on the command line:
jq '.Body'Visit this for jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
tl;dr
$ cat /tmp/so.json | underscore select '.Messages .Body' ["172.16.1.42|/home/480/1234/5-12-2013/1234.toSort"]Javascript CLI tools
You can use Javascript CLI tools like
- underscore-cli:
- json:select(): CSS-like selectors for JSON.
Example
Select all name children of a addons:
underscore select ".addons > .name"The underscore-cli provide others real world examples as well as the json:select() doc.
Similarly using Bash regexp. Shall be able to snatch any key/value pair.
key="Body"re="\"($key)\": \"([^\"]*)\""while read -r l; do if [[ $l =~ $re ]]; then name="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" value="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}" echo "$name=$value" else echo "No match" fidoneRegular expression can be tuned to match multiple spaces/tabs or newline(s). Wouldn't work if value has embedded ". This is an illustration. Better to use some "industrial" parser :)