Output JSON from Bash script

Question

So I have a bash script which outputs details on servers. The problem is that I need the output to be JSON. What is the best way to go about this?

Answer 1

I wrote a tiny program in Go, json_encode. It works pretty good for such cases:

$ ./getDistro.sh | json_encode
["my.dev","Ubuntu 17.10","4 days, 2 hours, 21 minutes, 17 seconds"]