Re: Light weight support for JSON

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/28/22 2:11 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, at 9:24 AM, Yair Lenga wrote:
> > Wanted to get feedback about the following "extensions" to bash that will
> > make it easier to work with simple JSON object. To emphasize, the goal is
> > NOT to "compete" with Python/Javascript (and other full scale language) -
> > just to make it easier to build bash scripts that cover the very common use
> > case of submitting REST requests with curl (checking results, etc), and to
> > perform simple processing of JSON files.
>
> I do not think bash needs to sprout functionality to support every
> data-exchange format of the month.  A loadable module might be okay,
> I guess.

Loadable builtins are the way to do this; you can encapsulate all the
functionality you need there without changes to bash itself.

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