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How to parse JSON string via command line on Linux

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Sep 5, 2013

If you often deal with JSON-formatted texts in command line or in shell scripts, you may wonder if any command-line utility can parse JSON string. This tutorial describes how to parse JSON string from the command line on Linux.

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