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Mastering Bash

You're reading from   Mastering Bash A Step-by-Step Guide to working with Bash Programming and Shell Scripting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784396879
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giorgio Zarrelli Giorgio Zarrelli
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Start Programming 2. Operators FREE CHAPTER 3. Testing 4. Quoting and Escaping 5. Menus, Arrays, and Functions 6. Iterations 7. Plug into the Real World 8. We Want to Chat 9. Subshells, Signals, and Job Controls 10. Lets Make a Process Chat 11. Living as a Daemon 12. Remote Connections over SSH 13. Its Time for a Timer 14. Time for Safety

What is a JSON?

JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is an open, standard format (ECMA-404) widely used to exchange data between applications. Created in 2007 as a subset of the JavaScript programing language, it quickly became adopted by many languages as a means to deliver data regardless of the language of the sending and receiving applications to be a neutral conveyor. We can find a JSON file modeled on two different structures.

An object composed by name: value pairs, opened and closed by a bracket with each name separated from the corresponding value by a colon and each pair separated by a comma, such as the following example:

{
"name" : "Janet",
"state" : "California",
"cake" : "Toffee sticky pudding"
}

An ordered list of values inside an array opened and closed by a square bracket and the values separated by a comma...

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