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  • While zsh doesn't suck quite as much as bash for programming. This is still a task that would be better done in perl or python or some other language actually intended for programming. e.g. with the perl JSON module, just give it a string containing json text and it will return you a perl data structure containing all the scalar, array, and hash elements within the json document. You can access them as you would any other perl data structure - e.g. $j->{scary array}->[1] is A less scary value. I'll post a minimal example below. Commented Jul 6, 2022 at 9:41
  • @cas I fully agree with your sentiment and always use Python for more involved tasks, but I still prefer the convenience of Zsh for one-off things. Commented Jul 6, 2022 at 9:56
  • I get that, I really do. But if it's an f-ing PITA to work with, it's not really "convenience", is it? (btw, i write lots of little throwaway perl scripts for one-off things. I like the convenience :-). I guess I use perl for the things you use zsh scripting for). Commented Jul 6, 2022 at 10:06