File: jsons.sh
   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 
   3 # The MIT License (MIT)
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  24 
  25 
  26 # jsons [options...] [filenames...]
  27 #
  28 # JSON Strings turns TSV (tab-separated values) data into a JSON array of
  29 # objects whose values are strings or nulls, the latter being used for
  30 # missing trailing values.
  31 
  32 
  33 case "$1" in
  34     -h|--h|-help|--help)
  35         awk '/^# +jsons /, /^$/ { gsub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' "$0"
  36         exit 0
  37     ;;
  38 esac
  39 
  40 [ "$1" = "--" ] && shift
  41 
  42 command='awk'
  43 if [ -p /dev/stdout ] || [ -t 1 ]; then
  44     command='stdbuf -oL awk'
  45 fi
  46 
  47 # show all non-existing files given
  48 failed=0
  49 for arg in "$@"; do
  50     if [ "${arg}" = "-" ]; then
  51         continue
  52     fi
  53     if [ ! -e "${arg}" ]; then
  54         printf "no file named \"%s\"\n" "${arg}" > /dev/stderr
  55         failed=1
  56     fi
  57 done
  58 
  59 if [ "${failed}" -gt 0 ]; then
  60     exit 2
  61 fi
  62 
  63 ${command} -F "\t" '
  64     function stringify(s) {
  65         gsub(/\\/, "\\\\", s)
  66         gsub(/"/, "\\\"", s)
  67         return sprintf("\"%s\"", s)
  68     }
  69 
  70     { gsub(/\r$/, "") }
  71 
  72     NR == 1 {
  73         key_count = NF
  74         for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {
  75             keys[i] = stringify($i)
  76         }
  77         next
  78     }
  79 
  80     NR == 2 { printf "[\n"; fflush() }
  81     NR > 2 { printf ",\n" }
  82 
  83     {
  84         if (NF > key_count) {
  85             msg = "found row with more values than the keys/header"
  86             print msg > "/dev/stderr"
  87             exit 1
  88         }
  89 
  90         printf "  {"
  91         for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {
  92             if (i > 1) printf ", "
  93             printf "%s: %s", keys[i], stringify($i)
  94         }
  95         for (i = NF + 1; i <= key_count; i++) {
  96             printf ", %s: \"\"", keys[i]
  97         }
  98         printf "}"
  99     }
 100 
 101     END { printf (NR <= 1) ? "[]\n" : "\n]\n" }
 102 ' "$@"