using jq, how can I extract a list,an entire list, from a json file for example

Asked Apr 27 '20 at 17:22

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Given

{ "id" :1, 
  "plankVal" : 2,
  "planklist" : ['one','two','three','four']
}

I am looking for something like:

jq '.planklist' 
one,two,three,four

edited Apr 27 '20 at 19:20

peak

asked Apr 27 '20 at 17:22

Mza

I feel this question should be reopened. The linked to question is very specific, long and complicated. This general question type (jq -> csv) deserves a simpler question, like this one. Although the title should be improved. – Cornelius Roemer Apr 28 '20 at 19:37
Ok, I checked and there other worthy duplicate targets, don't understand why this particular target was chosen, makes no sense to me: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32960857/how-to-convert-arbitrary-simple-json-to-csv-using-jq https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49228126/how-to-convert-json-into-csv-file-using-jq @peak Please add these as targets instead – Cornelius Roemer Apr 28 '20 at 20:18

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