Convert PEM certificate to JSON format

README.md

Convert a PEM based file to JSON

This snippet will convert a PEM based certificate of key to JSON format. This is useful when having to embed a certificate in a JSON object.

It will simply add \n in the required places.

The snipped was copied from here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/Unified-Access-Gateway/2.9/com.vmware.access-point-29-deploy-config/GUID-870AF51F-AB37-4D6C-B9F5-4BFEB18F11E9.html

pem_to_json.sh

awk 'NF {sub(/\r/, ""); printf "%s\\n",$0;}' cert-name.pem

"---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "rsa-key-20191003"
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAyVL47bCG41zJu2tdWEwPQwrzb+ettT+o5zl2
2ERrlx5oV2UQ4msjPZN5cWtHeeNsGBpG9J/+vbZF8uEYbVY640fRI7YjmIlNDUp6
a41IVQvHS15uyKJx6kfFMubkdjzrlzmMAYHfHp1B32bnSjgkkM87L+p/C4z7RaK4
CLiUzWGTyhYOmRuo6zIFUVbpi3Fo/HOIiDq6o3PFd9tkdrzgGDtIZsDA77+6QQpw
y4PwjxfSl53We1YiQ4+pwWfwBoSr6WnuSEropxeBnNpKXnGcij6yrHGppZCF/Qjx
c65YvrIxrVVER+gN/AuX24cRG0HjsUP2dcsTBhOJfBE3Z8GI7Q==
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
"

And to do the backward process :v ?

If you need a more modern version of this you can use jq to do all sorts of magic with JSON.
In any case you could run jq -sR . $any_file to convert the entire file to JSON.

Sorry, just happened to stumble on this and thought jq might help someone.

It definitely helped me! Thanks @benaryorg

Helped me as well. Thanks @benaryorg

Thanks @benaryorg . Really appreciate your solution.

This is amazing. Much appreciated 😁

If you need a more modern version of this you can use jq to do all sorts of magic with JSON. In any case you could run jq -sR . $any_file to convert the entire file to JSON.

Sorry, just happened to stumble on this and thought jq might help someone.

Yep... jq definitely comes in handy for this. Thanks @benaryorg!