https://livesys.se/tags/json/ Recent content in Json on Living Systems_ Hugo en-us Tue, 08 Dec 2015 07:10:00 +0100 https://livesys.se/posts/the-unexpected-usefullness-of-json-on-the-commandline/ Tue, 08 Dec 2015 07:10:00 +0100 https://livesys.se/posts/the-unexpected-usefullness-of-json-on-the-commandline/ <p>I was working with a migration from <a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drupal</a> to <a href="http://processwire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">processwire</a> CMS:es, where I wanted to be able to pipe data, including the body field with HTML formatting and all, through multiple processing steps in a flexible manner. I&rsquo;d start with an extraction SQL query, through a few components to replace and massage the data, and finally over to an import command using processwire&rsquo;s <a href="http://wireshell.pw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wireshell tool</a> . So, basically I needed a flexible format for structured data that could be sent as one &ldquo;data object&rdquo; per line, to work nicely with linux commandline tools like grep, sed and awk.</p>