Linux

jq

SafeProcess JSON

<command> | jq '.key'

The JSON Swiss-army knife: pretty-print with '.', extract with paths, transform with filters.

Examples

  • curl -s https://api.example.com/items | jq '.[].name'Extract names from API

Syntax

jq 'FILTER' [file]

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