Thanks for the info, very good. I needed to pick two values, so I did this: #!/bin/bash energy=`curl 'http://www.energyhive.com/mobile_proxy/getCurrentValuesSummary?token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' | jq -r .[].data` tot=`echo $energy |cut -f2 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"}"| tr -d ' '` car=`echo ...