On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 08:47:24PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: > The "obvious" way to support Json in Bash would be a utility that parses > Json and produces e.g. a Bash associative array, and conversely a > utility that reads a Bash associative array and produces Json. The real > limitation is that it's difficult to have a subprocess set Bash's > variables. As far as I know, there's no good idiom for that.
The standard idiom for this sort of thing is eval "$(external-tool)" This means you need to *trust* the external-tool to produce safe code.
