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jc - JSON CLI output utility /etc/gshadow file parser

Usage (cli):

$ cat /etc/gshadow | jc --gshadow

Usage (module):

import jc result = jc.parse('gshadow', gshadow_file_output)

or

import jc.parsers.gshadow result = jc.parsers.gshadow.parse(gshadow_file_output)

Schema:

[ { "group_name": string, "password": string, "administrators": [ string ], "members": [ string ] } ]

Examples:

$ cat /etc/gshadow | jc --gshadow -p [ {

• "group_name" - "root",

• "password" - "*",

• "administrators" - [],

• "members" - [] }, {

• "group_name" - "adm",

• "password" - "*",

• "administrators" - [],

• "members" - [ "syslog", "joeuser" ] }, ... ]

  $ cat /etc/gshadow | jc --gshadow -p -r [ {

• "group_name" - "root",

• "password" - "*",

• "administrators" - [ "" ],

• "members" - [ "" ] }, {

• "group_name" - "adm",

• "password" - "*",

• "administrators" - [ "" ],

• "members" - [ "syslog", "joeuser" ] }, ... ]

info Objects

class info()

Provides parser metadata (version, author, etc.)

parse

def parse(data, raw=False, quiet=False)

Main text parsing function

Arguments:

• data - (string) text data to parse
• raw - (boolean) unprocessed output if True
• quiet - (boolean) suppress warning messages if True

Returns:

List of Dictionaries. Raw or processed structured data.

Parser Information

Compatibility: linux, aix, freebsd

Version 1.3 by Kelly Brazil (kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com)