Package: jshon (20131010-3 and others)

Command line tool to parse, read and create JSON

Jshon is a command line utility to parse, read and create JSON. It is designed to be as usable as possible from within the shell and replaces fragile adhoc parsers made from grep/sed/awk as well as heavyweight one-line parsers made from Perl/Python. Jshon loads json text from stdin, performs actions, then displays the last action on stdout.

Json parsing features include:

 Return data types of values
 Report data type lengths
 Sort JSON data by keys
 In-place editing of JSON files
 Format or "beautify" JSON (as changing indentation, etc)
 Create JSON from an empty object
 Extraction of keys and values

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