jdmichaud/jq.md

Created January 16, 2018 08:14

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Some jq examples

Raw

$ cat somefile
{
  "field": {
    "entry1": 12,
    "entry2": 42,
    "entry3": 8,
  }
}

Retrieve keys of an object and return them as an array:

$ <somefile jq '.field | to_entries[] | .key'
"entry1"
"entry2"
"entry3"

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