Edit package.json from command line

Question

I\'m trying to add or edit a variable in my package.json from a shell script. So if i have a package.json like this:

{
  \"name\": \"my-project\",
  \"descripti         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to install sponge or json, you can also do

echo "`jq '.foo="bar"' package.json`" > package.json