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Mastering Bash
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Mastering Bash

by Giorgio Zarrelli
June 2017
Beginner
502 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is a JSON?

JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is an open, standard format (ECMA-404) widely used to exchange data between applications. Created in 2007 as a subset of the JavaScript programing language, it quickly became adopted by many languages as a means to deliver data regardless of the language of the sending and receiving applications to be a neutral conveyor. We can find a JSON file modeled on two different structures.

An object composed by name: value pairs, opened and closed by a bracket with each name separated from the corresponding value by a colon and each pair separated by a comma, such as the following example:

{"name" : "Janet","state" : "California","cake" : "Toffee sticky pudding"}

An ordered list of values inside ...

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