Re^2: Outputting JSON with sorted names/keys

ooh. jq looks interesting. If I start doing more with JSON, I'll probably want to play with that, because a structure-aware sed-like tool would be quite useful.

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Re^3: Outputting JSON with sorted names/keys by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 27, 2020 at 17:12 UTC
I usually plug jq as being like "awk for JSON data" (in that just I think of it more in terms of doing "awk-y" things with it than sed like things (e.g. I want to pull these "fields" (some set of keys from an object) out of each line (each textual line of the file being a JSON object)). At any rate seconding it as a highly recommended useful thing to have lying around on your `PATH` somewhere. Check out the `@csv` and `@sh` formatting modifiers which can be handy wrangling JSON from the command line (search for "Format strings and escaping" in the manual). The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Outputting JSON with sorted names/keys
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 27, 2020 at 17:12 UTC

I usually plug jq as being like "awk for JSON data" (in that just I think of it more in terms of doing "awk-y" things with it than sed like things (e.g. I want to pull these "fields" (some set of keys from an object) out of each line (each textual line of the file being a JSON object)).

At any rate seconding it as a highly recommended useful thing to have lying around on your PATH somewhere. Check out the @csv and @sh formatting modifiers which can be handy wrangling JSON from the command line (search for "Format strings and escaping" in the manual).

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

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