dominictarr/JSON.sh

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JSON.sh is a pipeable JSON parser written entirely in shell (compatible with ash, bash, dash, and zsh) that flattens JSON documents into path/value pairs. It requires no external dependencies and works in Unix pipelines for extracting values from JSON.

Use cases

• parse json from a bash script without installing jq
• extract values from a json api response in a shell pipeline
• flatten a json file into key paths
• query npm registry json from the command line
• convert json to shell-friendly key value pairs

When to choose

• you need to parse JSON in a shell environment with no dependencies like jq or python
• you want a small pipeable tool that fits Unix pipelines
• you need something that runs in ash, dash, or other minimal shells

When to avoid

• you need high performance on large JSON documents
• you need complex queries like JSONPath or jq filters
• you need strict standards compliance or error handling for malformed JSON

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

parser cli json developer-tools files cli cross-platform shell-script json-flattening pipeable unix-philosophy command-line linux macos

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