Use jq to query and manipulate JSON data
jq is a lightweight command-line tool to quickly process your JSON data.
I mainly use it to search (grep
) and select specific fields of a JSON file, but it can also be used to transform (sed
) and process (awk
) the data.
Of course, the output is also nicely formatted.
If this peaks your interest head over to the download page.
While these examples are simple and are using a local data source, you can feed data to jq
using the pipe (|
) operator.
Make sure to check out the tutorial and the playground to also learn how to fully take advantage of jq
by transforming and filtering JSON data.
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