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Yesterday, when I had a file with a list of JSON objects, and I wanted to move the date field at the end to the beginning, so I used regex find and replace to move it. Something like
\{(.*?), ("date": ".*?")in Search, and then{$2, $1in replace (or something close to it).Yes, I refactor code and data using regex. I can't be arsed to learn AWK (even though I should).
AWK doesn't work with json IIRC. You have to use jq to deal with json.
While yes, the way I had it structured looked like a CSV if you squinted a little, I do fully agree AWK can't be used for just any old JSON.
jqis dope, but that language still feels pretty confusing IMO.