[SOLVED] Extract json value on regex on bash script

Issue

How can i get the values inner depends in bash script?

manifest.py

# Commented lines
{
    'category': 'Sales/Subscription',
    'depends': [
        'sale_subscription',
        'sale_timesheet',
    ],
    'auto_install': True,
}

Expected response:

sale_subscription sale_timesheet

The major problem is linebreak, i have already tried | grep depends but i can not get the sale_timesheet value.

Im trying to add this values comming from files into a var, like:

DOWNLOADED_DEPS=($(ls -A $DOWNLOADED_APPS | while read -r file; do cat $DOWNLOADED_APPS/$file/__manifest__.py | [get depends value])

Example updated.

Solution

If this is your JSON file:

{
  "category": "Sales/Subscription",
  "depends": [
      "sale_subscription",
      "sale_timesheet"
  ],
  "auto_install": true
}

You can get the desired result using jq like this:

jq -r '.depends | join(" ")' YOURFILE.json

This uses .depends to extract the value from the depends field, pipes it to join(" ") to join the array with a single space in between, and uses -r for raw (unquoted) output.

Answered By - Thomas

Answer Checked By - David Goodson (WPSolving Volunteer)