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Introduction Oh, JSON, JSON, JSON…what would the world be without you? Let me show you what I have learned recently about this ubiquitous data-interchange format. It turns out you can manipulate complex JSON strings on the command line with ease. This came to me as somewhat of a surprise as I always thought that JSON is fundamentally incompatible with traditional command line tools, the Unix filters cat, grep, sed and friends, that operate on ad hoc structured text files in a line-oriented fashi...