Extracting information from a string using regex in bash

Question

I have a string variable in bash which looks like so:

{\"SOGoTimeFormat\": \"%H:%M\", \"SOGoMailShowSubscribedFoldersOnly\": \"0\", \"SOGoMailSignaturePlacement\         


        

Answer 1

jq is an excellent tool for parsing and editing JSON, easy to drive from shell.

# extract "enabled" field from "Forward"
enabled=$(jq '.Forward.enabled` 

...or, to do the whole thing in one pass:

jq '
  if .Forward.enabled==1 then
    .Forward.forwardAddress=[(
      .Forward.forwardAddress[] |
      select(. | test("testuser2") | not)
    )]
  else . end
' output.json