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Actually that is the only time I started to find the shell limiting was working with JSON. But then I discovered jq and my issues are solved.



Yeah, except that jq, beyond 'jq .' is horribly unfriendly.


I had a similar complaint so I wrote this in ruby https://github.com/nburns/utilities/blob/master/rson


I started using jq as well -- was shocked to find the author was a former comp sci classmate of mine. It's very useful.




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