JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data representation format that resembles JavaScript source and that is can be easily red by machines and edited by humans with some effort.
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text-based data representation format. It coincides with JavaScript syntax. It aims at being both human-readable and machine-readable, although its readability for humans is hindered by excessive use of quotes and not enforcing indentation so hierarchical data structures are often not recognised as such.
Although a textual format, the complexities of free formatting make JSON difficult if not impossible to parse with awk, sed etc, unless severe formatting restrictions are imposed that are not part of the JSON specification. It is generally recommended to use a proper JSON parser to handle extraction and manipulation of JSON files, even if (currently) your
files are so restricted that line oriented tools might work.
Useful resources
commandline tools
- json_pp
- yaml (JSON is a subset of YAML 1.2)
