Read multi-line output into other variable in shell

Question

I have an output from a process that looks like this:

{
    "v1":  "x0482030ssj09645j34"
}

I need to parse this output in order to extract x0482030ssj09645j34.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

glenn jackman · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-25 20:28:26Z

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jq is a handy JSON parser. In this case, you can do

your_process | jq -r '.v1'

to output just that value

answered Mar 25, 2022 at 20:28

glenn jackman

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Thanks! But this will not work for me, as I cannot assume that I have jq installed...