tldr/pages/common/jq.md

jq

A lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

• Output a JSON file, in pretty-print format:

jq . {{file.json}}

• Output all elements from arrays (or all key-value pairs from objects) in a JSON file:

jq .[] {{file.json}}

• Read JSON objects from a file into an array, and output it (inverse of jq .[]):

jq --slurp . {{file.json}}

• Output the first element in a JSON file:

jq .[0] {{file.json}}

• Output the value of a given key of the first element in a JSON text from stdin:

cat {{file.json}} | jq .[0].{{key_name}}

• Output the value of a given key of each element in a JSON text from stdin:

cat {{file.json}} | jq 'map(.{{key_name}})'

• Combine multiple filters:

cat {{file.json}} | jq 'unique | sort | reverse'

• Output the value of a given key to a string (and disable JSON output):

cat {{file.json}} | jq --raw-output '"some text: \(.{{key_name}})"'