Knife bootstrap is complaining: Could not parse the provided JSON file (/etc/chef/first-boot.json): lexical error: inside a string, '\' occurs before a character which it may not

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Hello,

Can anyone help me to fix this problem for the below knife bootstrap to allow backslash character i.e '" .

Could not parse the provided JSON file (/etc/chef/first-boot.json): lexical error: inside a string, ‘’ occurs before a character which it may not.

           'Admini\strator_raja'

(right here) ------^

Thanks and Regards,
Rajan

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The \ character is the Escape character in JSON so you’d need \\.

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Thanks for your reply then i think , i have to replace the \ from user input string with \ . can you please suggest, what is the best way to replace through json attributes.