How to count items in JSON object using command line

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I m getting this kind of JSON reply from a curl command              cid   49       pyn    yi4        hans             hant             tid   68       l10n    cent million        pid   1       pos    num        pos txt                    cid   50       pyn    yi4        hans             hant             tid   69       l10n    100 millions        pid   1       pos    num        pos txt              How can I count the number of items in the array  here 2   using Bash or a command line  e g  underscore

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A simple solution is to install jshon library    jshon -l  lt   tmp test json 2

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You can also use jq to track down the array within the returned json and then pipe that in to a second jq call to get its length  Suppose it was in a property called records  like   quot records quot            curl https   my-source-of-json com list   jq -r   records    jq length 2

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The shortest expression is   curl  http          jq length

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Just throwing another solution in the mix     Try jq  a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor   jq length  tmp test json   Prints the length of the array of objects

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