Shell script to join 5 or more json files together
You could use jq utility (sed for JSON data):
$ jq -s '.' a-*.json > manifest.jsonmanifest.json:
[ { "status": "live", "code": "H3A8FF82820F", "name": "XN0", "id": "a-11" }, { "status": "live", "code": "FFFF82820F", "name": "PF1", "id": "a-03" }, { "status": "live", "code": "FFFF82820F", "name": "PF1", "id": "a-09" }]
Use the following bash script (it uses arrays which aren't standard across all shells):
#!/bin/bashshopt -s nullglobdeclare -a jsonsjsons=(a-*.json) # ${jsons[@]} now contains the list of files to concatenateecho '[' > manifest.jsonif [ ${#jsons[@]} -gt 0 ]; then # if the list is not empty cat "${jsons[0]}" >> manifest.json # concatenate the first file to the manifest... unset jsons[0] # and remove it from the list for f in "${jsons[@]}"; do # iterate over the rest echo "," >>manifest.json cat "$f" >>manifest.json donefiecho ']' >>manifest.json # complete the manifest