Alternative with jq

[jose1711]

Thank you for sharing the idea of a LLD script. I am not a huge fan of JSON hacks though so I modified the script that it uses jq to do all the parsing. This way it is guaranteed that the output is always a valid and nicely formatted json. Feel free to reuse or perhaps provide as an alternative where jq is installed.

sensors -j | \
  jq '{"data": [to_entries[]|.key as $chip | .value |
                to_entries[]|.key as $group | .value | 
                select(type == "object") |  # discard scalars
                to_entries[]|.key as $sensor|
                select($sensor|test(".*input"))|
                if ($sensor|test("temp.*")) then .units="°C"
                  elif ($sensor|test("power.*")) then .units="W"
                  elif ($sensor|test("fan.*")) then .units="RPM"
                  elif ($sensor|test("in.*")) then .units="V"
                  else .units=""
                end | 
                {"{#CHIP}":$chip, "{#SENSOR}":($sensor|sub("_input";"")), "{#UNITS}":.units}]}'

[guillerg86]

I think it's a good idea, because jq will escape some special chars if they appear.