A colleague of mine is working on some program in VS Code. He debugs/tests it by running it with a certain command line, encoded in his /path/to/repo/.vscode/launch.json file. The global JSON object there has a configuration element, which is an array; and each element of this array has program and 'args` keys, with the latter being an array of strings. For example:

{
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "myprog",
      "args": [ "foo1", "bar1",
                 "foo2", "bar2"
                 "etc", "andsoon" ],

etc. etc.

My question: I can use awk, or maybe even just sed and do some naive string processing to only get the program and args. But is there a less brute-force mechanism for achieving that?

Note: I want to do it from a bash shell session / in a script, not from some IDE.