How to format a bash array as a JSON array

Question

I have a bash array

X=(\"hello world\" \"goodnight moon\")

That I want to turn into a json array

[\"hello world\", \"goodni         


        

Answer 1

You can use:

X=("hello world" "goodnight moon")
sed 's/^/[/; s/,$/]/' <(printf '"%s",' "${X[@]}") | jq -s '.'
[
  [
    "hello world",
    "goodnight moon"
  ]
]