Read JSON in Bash with Python

Getting JSON from a flat file in a shell script

JSON is become a defacto serialization standard. Getting at the info in Bash is nice.

cat /var/myfile

{'this': 'you'}

Create a script that can access this data

#!/bin/bash
set -e
FILE='/var/file'
if [[ ! -a $FILE ]]; then
    exit 0
fi
dict_value=`python -c 'import json, os; d=json.loads(open("/var/file").read()); print d["this"]'`
echo $dict_value

Run it as a command ./script.sh

you