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| sed 's/#.*$ | | sed 's/#.*$//' \ | ||
| jq '.one' | | jq '.one' | ||
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Revision as of 15:25, 28 August 2021
parse json on the commandline.
Documentation
official docs https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/ homepage https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
Usage
Basics
# print w/ syntaxhighlighting echo '{"one": 1, "two": {"a": "A"}}' | jq # get key ["one"] echo '{"one": 1, "two": {"a": "A"}}' | jq '.one' # 1 # get nested-key ["two"]["a"] echo '{"one": 1, "two": {"a": "A"}}' | jq '.two.a' # "A" # get list item at index 1 echo '["a", "b", "c"]' | jq '.[1]' # "b"Comments
Neither json nor
jq
support comments.
You could pre-process the object to strip them, however.If you'll never use
#
in keys/values you could do the following:echo '{ "one": 1, # foo bar baz # description of key "two": 2 }' \ | sed 's/#.*$//' \ | jq '.one'