I am using jq to search for specific results in a large file. I do not care for duplicate entries matching this specific condition, and it takes a while to process the whole file. What I would like to do is print some details about the first match and then terminate the jq command on the file to save time.
I.e.
jq '. | if ... then "print something; exit jq" else ... end'
I looked into http://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/?#Breakingoutofcontrolstructures but this didn't quite seem to apply
EDIT:The file I am parsing contains multiple json objects, one after another. They are not in an array.