change json file by bash script

Question

I need your help to solve the following problem: I have a JSON file that looks like this:

{
  \"key1\": \"value1\",
  \"key2\": \"value2\",
  \"key3\": \"val         


        

Answer 1

Not the answer for everyone, but if you already happen to have NodeJs installed in your system, you can use it to easily manipulate JSON.

eg:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
jsonFile=$1;

node > out_${jsonFile} <

Heck, if you only need to do JSON manipulation and you have node (ie: You don't really need any other bash functionality) you could directly write a script using node as the interpreter:

#! /usr/bin/env node
var data = require('./'+ process.argv[2]);
/*manipulate*/
console.log(JSON.stringify(data));