4 years ago

I rediscovered jq the other day, a little command line tool to format, read, and transform JSON from the command line. Jq falls into one of my favorite categories of tools: the “simple and do one thing good” category—the Unix philosophy at its finest.

Then, you can use a path syntax to query the JSON object. The path syntax supports arrays and deeply nested objects, and can even map data with a pipe operator.

Read the docs for further instructions and a detailed explanation of the path syntax.