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Merge two json in bash (no jq)

I have two jsons :

env.json

{  
   "environment":"INT"
}

roles.json

{  
   "run_list":[  
      "recipe[splunk-dj]",
      "recipe[tideway]",
      "recipe[AlertsSearch::newrelic]",
      "recipe[AlertsSearch]"
   ]
}

expected output should be some thing like this : 

{  
       "environment":"INT",
    "run_list":[  
          "recipe[splunk-dj]",
          "recipe[tideway]",
          "recipe[AlertsSearch::newrelic]",
          "recipe[AlertsSearch]"
       ]
    }

I need to merge these two json (and other like these two) into one single json using only available inbuilt bash commands.

only have sed, cat, echo, tail, wc at my disposal.

Solution

  • A little bit hacky, but hopefully will do.

    env_lines=`wc -l < $1`
env_output=`head -n $(($env_lines - 1)) $1`
roles_lines=`wc -l < $2`
roles_output=`tail -n $(($roles_lines - 1)) $2`
echo "$env_output" "," "$roles_output"