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pythonlinuxechosimplejson

echo json to textfile removes double quotes

I'm trying to write a json dumps string using linux bash shell echo in a text file. My problem is it removes all double quotes.

example code.

d = {"key": "value"}
"echo %s > /home/user/%s" % (simplejson.dumps(d), 'textfile'))

Output in textfile

{key: value}

It removes all double quotes so I can't load it to json because it is not a valid json anymore.

Thanks

Solution

  • You need to escape quotes for Bash usage:

    ("echo %s > /home/user/%s" % (simplejson.dumps(d), 'textfile')).replace('"', '\\"')