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Developers embrace jq for command-line JSON processing

Original: 💻 jq: 35.7 k ⭐ I used to pipe JSON through Python one-liners to extract fields. Then I learned jq and my shell scripts g

The command-line tool jq, a GitHub project with roughly 35,700 stars, is drawing attention as a simpler way to handle JSON data. A developer describes how switching from piping JSON through Python one-liners to jq made shell scripts dramatically shorter, calling it like sed, awk and grep but for JSON. Its pipe syntax lets users chain filters, slices, maps and transformations directly from the terminal.

Why now: Developers are sharing the tool because it noticeably simplifies working with JSON in shell scripts.

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• 💻 jq: 35.7 k ⭐ I used to pipe JSON through Python one-liners to extract fields. Then I learned jq and my shell scripts got 10x shorter. jq is sed/awk/grep for JSON — filter, slice, map, and transform structured data from the command line. Pipe syntax chains operations… · jesper@tech.lgbt

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