jq
Apr 26, 2022
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
Great tool for filtering, formatting, and outputting json.
A bit cryptic though.
- The manual is complete but not very thorough: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/
- There's a lot more information on the wiki: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/jq-Language-Description
- Good intro article: https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/
- I like that article better than the bit I wrote for work: https://gist.github.com/llimllib/84a4345e87c5bc0758597c2052cbc680
jq
appears to be largely unmaintained at this point, which is sad
- convert json to csv, something I modified from stack overflow:
cat some.json | jq -r '(map(keys) | add | unique) as $cols | map(. as $row | $cols | map($row[.])) as $rows | $cols, $rows[] | @csv'
JBOL is a collection of jq modules you can install. this is an example of some of the powerful stuff you can do with jq, I understand very little of it
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