for folks just discovering jq, you might like my blog post on it as well, which doesn’t go much further depth-wise, but does show some more features https://zxvf.org/post/jq-as-grep/
I love jq but I find its syntax impossible to understand. Every time I use it I look up examples for even basic things. Maybe it makes more sense if you know javascript? I’m not saying I could design something better, just that I’ve struggled with it far more than I expected.
I also have to look things up all the time with jq, takes a while to write scripts, but when they’re done, they work great. For exploratory stuff however, https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron is much simpler
for folks just discovering jq, you might like my blog post on it as well, which doesn’t go much further depth-wise, but does show some more features https://zxvf.org/post/jq-as-grep/
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jqbut I find its syntax impossible to understand. Every time I use it I look up examples for even basic things. Maybe it makes more sense if you know javascript? I’m not saying I could design something better, just that I’ve struggled with it far more than I expected.I also have to look things up all the time with jq, takes a while to write scripts, but when they’re done, they work great. For exploratory stuff however, https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron is much simpler