Also for anything where jq gets too complicated, you can use python to whip
up an arbitrary json filter

Theres only 5 lines of boiler plate

import json
import sys
d = json.load(sys.stdin)
# your code here
print(json.dumps(d))

Tyler

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 09:22 <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> > 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@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
>