22 Jan
2020
22 Jan
'20
1:21 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 09:45:22AM -0600, Michael
Parson wrote:
>
> And here, understanding the model is important, namely, grep is the
> wrong tool for searching/parsing JSON output. Dealing with JSON from the
> shell, you should use jq. I've been dragged kicking and screaming into
> dealing with JSON, and about all I can say about it is, I like it about
> this >< much more than XML. :)
Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-tuhs(a)employees.org> wrote:
If push comes to shove, one can always use xmlawk (xml
extension for gawk)
to beat the latter in to submission.
There is also a simple JSON extension for gawk in the gawkextlib project
that can suck in a single JSON record and turn it into a gawk
multidimensional array, and vice versa. (Gawk has true multidimensional
arrays and isarray/typeof functions so that you can easily traverse
such an array.)
(<horn ownership="mine">Toot!</horn>)
Arnold