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find and replace value in json file in linux

Hi bash experts.

Could you kindly help with this please.

  1. Have a json file which I would like to automate replacing some values.
  2. Value would come from a property file.
  3. I'm trying to avoid introducing a token in the source json file and use sed to replace it.
  4. Would really like to check for name and then replace value portion, may be sed will use regex
  5. Since I dont have control on the file, I prefer this.
  6. Very worst case I can introudce tocken and use sed to replace if that is safe and simple


Have attached
  1. json file (before)
  2. json file (after)
  3. sample property file

Thanks in advance
config_after.json
config_before.json
sample.properties
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As noci said, this is really not something you can do easily or reliably in bash.  Personally I would use Perl but python would work as well (and likely other languages).
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i should have mentioned perl  as well...   (Python and Node-js come to mind first for json as they both use it for native format).