Jan-Piet Mens :: A shell command to create JSON: joI got tired of attempting to get shell scripts to produce valid JSON. You’ve likely seen something like this before: echo '{"name":"Jane"}' It gets merrier if an element contains an environment variable: open double, close single, add variable, open single, blergh. A here! script will do it as will a a printf(1), but neither much improve legibility, and if strings contain quotes, it becomes almost
