jq is a sed-like tool for JSON data – you can use it to slice, filter, map, and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends lets you play with text.
jq is a succinct programming language for querying and manipulating JSON data or plain text files. You can use it to slice, filter, map, and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with textual data. jq is stream-oriented and uses the pipe symbol | to connect filters familiarly.
Resources
- Project
- GitHub
- Playground
- gojq, the Go implementation of jq
- exercism.org has a learning track for jq. It's like an extended tutorial with practice exercises.
