Unable to parse?

[awiley-coyote]

I am getting this error when trying to run this:
Unable to parse input json contents SyntaxError: Unexpected token { in JSON at position 105
at JSON.parse ()
at Object. (/home/hunter/Desktop/json-to-es-bulk/index.js:51:22)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:831:12)
at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:623:3)
ReferenceError: exit is not defined
at Object. (/home/hunter/Desktop/json-to-es-bulk/index.js:55:5)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:831:12)
at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:623:3)

command I am trying to run is node index.js -f ~/Documents/JSON_Files/Windows.System.DNSCache.json --index dnscache --type _doc

[mradamlacey]

Can you validate your input JSON (~/Documents/JSON_Files/Windows.System.DNSCache.json) is valid? Does it validate in a tool like https://jsonlint.com/ ?