jq(1) -- Command-line JSON processor

SYNOPSIS

jq [<options>...] <filter> [<files>...]

jq can transform JSON in various ways, by selecting, iterating, reducing and otherwise mangling JSON documents. For instance, running the command jq 'map(.price) | add' will take an array of JSON objects as input and return the sum of their "price" fields.

jq can accept text input as well, but by default, jq reads a stream of JSON entities (including numbers and other literals) from stdin. Whitespace is only needed to separate entities such as 1 and 2, and true and false. One or more <files> may be specified, in which case jq will read input from those instead.

The <options> are described in the [INVOKING JQ] section; they mostly concern input and output formatting. The <filter> is written in the jq language and specifies how to transform the input file or document.

FILTERS

BUGS

Presumably. Report them or discuss them at:

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/issues

AUTHOR

Stephen Dolan <[email protected]>