Reputation: 105
I have a json file names test.json with the below content.
{
"run_list": ["recipe[cookbook-ics-op::setup_server]"],
"props": {
"install_home": "/test/inst1",
"tmp_dir": "/test/inst1/tmp",
"user": "tuser
}
}
I want to read this file into a variable in shell script & then extract the values of install_home,user & tmp_dir using expr. Can someone help, please?
props=cat test.json
works to get the json file into a variable. Now how can I extract the values using expr. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Upvotes: 4
Views: 21006
Reputation: 26379
For simple JSON, it may be treated as a plain text file. In that case, we can use simple text pattern matching to extract the information we need.
If you observe the following lines:
"install_home": "/test/inst1",
"tmp_dir": "/test/inst1/tmp",
"user": "user"
There exists a pattern on each line that can be described as key
and value
:
"key"
:
"value"
We can use perl
with regular expressions to exact the value
for any given key:
"key"
hardcoded for each case "install_home"
, "tmp_dir"
and "user"
"value"
as (.*)
regular expressionThen we use the $1
matching group to retrieve the value.
i=$(perl -ne 'if (/"install_home": "(.*)"/) { print $1 . "\n" }' test.json)
t=$(perl -ne 'if (/"tmp_dir": "(.*)"/) { print $1 . "\n" }' test.json)
u=$(perl -ne 'if (/"user": "(.*)"/) { print $1 . "\n" }' test.json)
cat <<EOF
install_home: $i
tmp_dir : $t
user : $u
EOF
Which outputs:
install_home: /test/inst1
tmp_dir : /test/inst1/tmp
user : tuser
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 73
jq is a dedicated parser for JSON files. Install jq.
values in the json can be retrieved as:
jq .<top-level-attr>.<next-level-attr> <json-file-path>
if JSON contains an array
jq .<top-level-attr>.<next-level-array>[].<elem-in-array> <json-file-path>
if you want a value in a shell variable
id = $(jq -r .<top-level-attr>.<next-level-array>[].<next-level-attr> <json-file-path>)
echo id
use -r if you need unquoted value
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 530
Install jq
yum -y install epel-release
yum -y install jq
Get the values in the following way
install_home=$(cat test.json | jq -r '.props.install_home')
tmp_dir=$(cat test.json | jq -r '.props.tmp_dir')
user=$(cat test.json | jq -r '.props.user')
Upvotes: 5
Reputation: 1149
For a pure bash solution I suggest this:
github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh
It could be used like this:
./json.sh -l -p < example.json
print output like:
["name"] "JSON.sh"
["version"] "0.2.1"
["description"] "JSON parser written in bash"
["homepage"] "http://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh"
["repository","type"] "git"
["repository","url"] "https://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh.git"
["bin","JSON.sh"] "./JSON.sh"
["author"] "Dominic Tarr <[email protected]> (http://bit.ly/dominictarr)"
["scripts","test"] "./all-tests.sh"
From here is pretty trivial achive what you are looking for
Upvotes: 3