Structured Output

JSON Line

Emit One Object

JSON Lines store one JSON object per output line. Bash can build small JSON-shaped records from controlled values.

Program

Play the script to choose a result value and see one JSON-line record.

json_line.sh 
#!/usr/bin/env bash

result=
name="smoke"
json="{\"name\":\"$name\",\"result\":\"$result\"}"
echo "$json"

#!/usr/bin/env bash

result=
name="smoke"
json="{\"name\":\"$name\",\"result\":\"$result\"}"
echo "$json"
JSON line A JSON-line stream writes one JSON object per line.
controlled values Small controlled values avoid shell-escaping problems in this introductory pattern.
machine output Structured output is meant for another program as much as for a human reader.