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Bash script to split a JSON into multiple files. Uses jq.
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split_json.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Split a JSON into multiple files. Uses jq.
# Usage
# ./split_json.sh /path/to/json/file
file="$1"
jq -cr 'keys[] as $k | "\($k)\t\(.[$k])"' "$file" | awk -F\\t '{ file=$1".json"; print $2 > file; close(file); }'
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