Re: Light weight support for JSON

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/28/22 8:47 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> The "obvious" way to support Json in Bash would be a utility that parses
> Json and produces e.g. a Bash associative array, and conversely a
> utility that reads a Bash associative array and produces Json.  The real
> limitation is that it's difficult to have a subprocess set Bash's
> variables.  As far as I know, there's no good idiom for that.

That's why a loadable builtin is the preferred mechanism.

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