Jq – A Command-line JSON processor

jq is awesome, a real achievement. At the same time it demonstrates everything that is wrong with traditional shells and what PowerShell gets so right. jq is not a "Unixy" tool in the sense that it should do one thing and do it right. jq implements its own expression language, command processor complete with internal "pipelines". Why would a tool need to do that? find is another utility that does many, many other things than to "find" items: It executes…

jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. Thank you! When I clicked on the link I was fully expecting it to be written in Node and I was going to cry.

Considering the amount of json around, wouldn't it be time to settle on a standard for : - schema definition ( using something like typescript ? ) - data path ( similar to xpath ) - data transformation ( similar to xslt ) i'm pretty sure many people have done their things but i'm still waiting to see a tool like wsdl - based stub generators that would work on many json api. ps : i know that things like…

I’ve found that jq is great for quick one-offs. But it also has a very rich syntax that allows for more complicated use cases. That said, instead of heading for the jq manpage I find it’s much easier to hack something together in Python. What’s the draw of jq here? The ability to parse with only a command line?