jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep …

jq 1.8 Manual For other versions, see 1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.3 or development version. A jq program is a "filter": it takes an input, and produces an output. There are a lot of builtin filters for extracting a …

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor