Using jsoncols

If myblob.json contained

    {"name": "Doe, Jane", "email":"jane.doe@example.org", "age": 42}

Getting just the name could be done with

    jsoncols -i myblob.json .name

This would yield

    "Doe, Jane"

Flipping .name and .age into pipe delimited columns is as easy as listing each field in the expression inside a space delimited string.

    jsoncols -i myblob.json -d\|  .name .age

This would yield

    "Doe, Jane"|42

You can also pipe JSON data in.

    cat myblob.json | jsoncols .name .email .age

Would yield

   "Doe, Jane","jane.doe@xample.org",42

example files

• myblog.json
• jsoncols-demo.bash