Augeas can do something similar too. But not only JSON but XML and 200+ other co...

Augeas can do something similar too. But not only JSON but XML and 200+ other config file formats.[0]

  $ augtool -r . -L --transform 'JSON.lns incl /catj-eg.json'  <<< 'print /files/catj-eg.json'
  /files/catj-eg.json
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry = "movie"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[1] = "name"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[1]/string = "Interstellar"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[2] = "year"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[2]/number = "2014"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[3] = "is_released"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[3]/const = "true"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[4] = "director"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[4]/string = "Christopher Nolan"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[5] = "cast"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[5]/array
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[5]/array/string[1] = "Matthew McConaughey"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[5]/array/string[2] = "Anne Hathaway"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[5]/array/string[3] = "Jessica Chastain"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[5]/array/string[4] = "Bill Irwin"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[5]/array/string[5] = "Ellen Burstyn"
  /files/catj-eg.json/dict/entry/dict/entry[5]/array/string[6] = "Michael Caine"

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  $ ls  .../share/augeas/lenses/dist/|wc
        221     221    2867