Question

I have a dynamically created json file.
I want to know only the “errors” part of “status”. Is there any easy way to do so?

...
a lot of lines 
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 "status": {
    "errors": [
      {
        "message": "Input contained no data", 
        "reason": "invalid"
      }
    ], 
    "state": "DONE"
  }
...
a lot of lines
...

I need to use the output in a shell script so awk is preferred.

Answer 1

This might work for you:

sed '/^ "status": {/,/^  }$/!d;/^    "errors": \[/,/^    \],/!d' file.txt