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format output file with awk

$ awk -F "\t" 'BEGIN{print "{\"cli command\":\"${command}\", \"description\":\"${description}\"},"} {print "{\"cli command\":\""$1"\", \"description\":\""$2"\"},"}' input_file | awk 'NR>1{print p} {p=$0} END{printf "%s\n]", p}'

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Here is an example of how you can use awk to format output as a JSON string with two fields: "cli command" and "description".

awk -F "\t" 'BEGIN{print "{\"cli command\":\"<command>\", \"description\":\"<description>\"},"} {print "{\"cli command\":\""$1"\", \"description\":\""$2"\"},"}' input_file | awk 'NR>1{print p} {p=$0} END{printf "%s\n]", p}'

Replace <command> with the respective CLI command and <description> with the corresponding description.

The above command reads from an input file (replace input_file with your actual file path). Each line of the input file should contain the CLI command and its description separated by tabs (adjust -F "\t" if different separators are used).

The output will be a JSON string with each line representing one pair of "cli command" and "description". The last line will include a ] to close the JSON array.

Note: Make sure to escape any special characters that may be present in the command or description, especially double quotes ("), backslashes (\), and control characters.

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