https://traviscj.com/blog/tags/bash/ Recent content in Bash on traviscj/blog Hugo en-us Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://traviscj.com/blog/post/2015-08-19-build_json.sh/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://traviscj.com/blog/post/2015-08-19-build_json.sh/ <p>This might seem silly, but I&rsquo;ve beeing playing with some <a href="http://traviscj.com/ZeroBin/?1d4c5e66662c6306#V91+G7w0NYxN4ui/sDPBivPA8Fo5PzB7mZHAPboau7U=">json.sh</a> scripts that build legitimate json bodies and are easily filled into a shell script variable as needed.</p> <p>The basic driving idea was that there are lots of slick ways to pull data <em>out</em> of JSON(either by programming something with python&rsquo;s json or running a command line tool like jq or whatever), but not as many friendly ways to build some JSON out of a given token or whatever. Often, you have a list of identifiers and you need to build a bunch of JSON blobs from that list.</p>