json

json ¶

L_json_escape ¶

Produces a string properly quoted for JSON inclusion

Poor man's jq

Example

L_json_escape -v tmp "some string"
echo "{\"key\":$tmp}" | jq .

Option: -v <var> Store the output in variable instead of printing it.

See:

L_json_escape_v ¶

L_json_create ¶

Very simple function to create JSON.

Every second argument is quoted for JSON, unless This argument is preceeded by a previous argument ending with ] or }, when the counter starts over.

Example

L_json_create { \
  a : b , \
  b :[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] \
  c :[true, 1 ,null,false] \
}
#   ^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - unquoted, added literally to the string
# outputs: {"a":"b","b":[1,2,3,4],"c":[true,"1",false,null]}

Options:

-v <var> Store the output in variable instead of printing it.
-h Print this help and return 0.