Is there a way to parse json files using standard linux shell tools?
I don't want to install/learn python/php or other stuff, would prefer to use bash, awk, sed, etc...
It would not be cost/time effective for me to learn python/php for a one-time use senerio. Just need to write a quick automation to parse a json format im getting from a web site. It will be a one-off application, so please don't try to talk me into php/python as that will take weeks to figure out, ill never have another use for it, and I need something quick and easy.

There's a command called jq for this,

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/tutorial/

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/

You'll probably have it in your distro, if it's not very old.

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ok. Perl would be a quick and easy way to avoid PHP or Python. :P

JSON is complex enough that you actually have to parse it so awk and sed won't do.

However, there is jq which you could install from your repository and it can do simple extractions.

Edit: oops, too slow, see above

+1 for jq, I'm using it to parse results from Google Maps API in a bash script and it works just fine!

I plan to interrogate Kibana with it.

Thanks, ill look at JQ and see if I can install it on a Raspberry pi.