From f9981ec54f2018e2b2143dabc1c11de55340fef8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Edward Vielmetti Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:10:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] standardize formatting, add example --- JSON.md | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/JSON.md b/JSON.md index 111cba6..3586c90 100644 --- a/JSON.md +++ b/JSON.md @@ -1,8 +1,16 @@ -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. -Several tilde.club programs expose APIs essentially by spitting out JSON as their output, including e.g. -the list of recently updated home pages at +Several tilde.club programs expose APIs essentially by spitting out +JSON as their output, including e.g. the list of recently updated home +pages at -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. +http://tilde.club/~delfuego/tilde.24h.json -[Documentation for `jq` is in its manual.](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/) \ No newline at end of file +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/)