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JSON is the "Javascript Object Notation", basically a file format for data that's suitable for easy processing by most modern web-based tools. JSON is the "Javascript Object Notation", basically a file format for data that's suitable for easy processing by most modern web-based tools.
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If you're looking to parse JSON from the command line with a minimum of code, the `jq` program may be your thing. `jq` is a filter that takes JSON on standard input and produces JSON on standard output. Along the way in the middle you can do various standard sorts of file munging on a field by field basis. [Documentation is in the jq manual.](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/) If you're looking to parse JSON from the command line with a minimum of code, the `jq` program may be your thing. `jq` is a filter that takes JSON on standard input and produces JSON on standard output. Along the way in the middle you can do various standard sorts of file munging on a field by field basis.
[Documentation for `jq` is in its manual.](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/)