Loop over JSON input

[Miserlou]

Maybe something like..

$ loop 'echo $VALUE > $KEY' --for-dict "{'hello', 'world'}"
$ cat hello
world

[michaelmior]

Did you mean ['hello', 'world']? {} is used for objects in JSON while [] is for arrays. I'm also not sure why JSON is needed here. Also, something like --for-each might be a better name for the flag since there's no dictionaries involved.

[Miserlou]

Basically I wanted to do be able to open simple .json files and so something with the list items and key:value pairs. I have a lot of JSON files.

[michaelmior]

I totally missed in the example that you had separate variables for $KEY and $VALUE. You can ignore most of my comment :)