jpmens/jo repository overview

⁠jo

This is jo, a small utility to create JSON objects

$ jo -p name=jo n=17 parser=false
{
    "name": "jo",
    "n": 17,
    "parser": false
}

or arrays

$ seq 1 10 | jo -a
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

It has a manual⁠, and you can read why I wrote jo⁠.

⁠Build from Release tarball

To build from a release⁠ you will need a C compiler to install from a source tarball which you download from the Releases page⁠.

tar xvzf jo-1.3.tar.gz
cd jo-1.3
autoreconf -i
./configure
make check
make install

⁠Build from Github

To install from the repository, you will need a C compiler as well as a relatively recent version of automake and autoconf.

git clone git://github.com/jpmens/jo.git
cd jo
autoreconf -i
./configure
make check
make install

⁠Homebrew

brew install jo

⁠Ubuntu

apt-get install jo

⁠Gentoo

emerge jo

⁠Snap

Thanks to Roger Light⁠, jo is available as a snap package⁠. Use snap install jo from a Linux distro that supports snaps.

⁠Others

• voidlinux⁠
• ArchLinux⁠
• OpenBSD⁠
• FreeBSD⁠
• Guix⁠
• pkgsrc⁠
• repology.org⁠
• Docker⁠

⁠See also

• gjo⁠
• rjo⁠
• jjo⁠

⁠Credits

• json.[ch] by 2011 Joseph A. Adams ([email protected]⁠).