rsperl/remove_keys.md

Last active July 25, 2022 12:49

Select an option

Learn more about clone URLs
Clone this repository at <script src="https://gist.github.com/rsperl/98514bb07e37635f4522795d6f484725.js"></script>
Save rsperl/98514bb07e37635f4522795d6f484725 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Use jq to remove keys based on regex #snippet

Raw

Remove all entries that have a key ending in .comment:

echo '{"key": "value", "key.comment": "key comment"}'  | \
	jq '.|with_entries(select(.key|test(".\\.comment$")|not))'

gives

{
  "key": "value"
}

Select an option