Assigning incrementing numbers in order-preserving way
Using jq, I want to assign an incrementing number num to each element in the order they appear in the input, but keep the same number for elements that share a ref value with other elements.So...
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I'm developing jq expressions on the command line. (I plan to use the expression with pyjq in python to parse http requests.)The following command line:$ cat some.json | jq...
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I'm considering the following array of JSON objects:[ {"index": "index1","type": "type1","id": "id1","fields": {"deviceOs": ["Android" ],"deviceID": ["deviceID1" ],"type": ["type" ],"country": ["DE" ]...
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I am implementing a program accessing a REST API, which can be filtered server-side by passing in a jq-statement. My issue is with writing a jq filter that includes an element called...
View ArticleRecursive search values by key in docker inspect output : Cannot index string...
I'm trying to recursively extract with jq the RestartPolicy from the docker inspect json output of a container.I tried this command adapted from this solution :$ sudo docker inspect...
View ArticleHow to convert a json response into yaml in bash
I read data from a json file with jq. I wanna append the results into a yaml file, but I dont get it working. I am quite new to shell programming. My goal is to append that "users" to an existing...
View ArticleProcess large JSON stream with jq
I get a very large JSON stream (several GB) from curl and try to process it with jq.The relevant output I want to parse with jq is packed in a document representing the result structure:{"results":[...
View ArticleHow to iterate and pick the each element in {} blocks
{ __name__: sc_pcd_g2version, container: mgmtbroker, endpoint: vxexporter, instance: 10.42.24.132:9116, job: prometheus, namespace: delivery, pod: chn1-d1-ac-0, service: prometheus }{ __name__:...
View ArticleHow to insert JSON into table beside a specific value using JQ
In this JSON snippet[ {"user":"user-1","videos":[ {"key":"key1","url":"url1" } ] }, {"user":"user-2","videos":[ {"key":"key2","url":"url2" } ] }]I want to add {"key":"key3","url":"url3"} under videos...
View ArticleHow to recursively print the path of all keys in jq
I'd like to get a list of all paths available in a JSON document, just to get an idea of the layout of a big json document.One liners preferred, of course a big jq/python program can do the...
View Articlehow to parse a JSON String with jq (or other alternatives)?
I'm trying to get jq to parse a JSON structure like:{"a" : 1,"b" : 2,"c" : "{\"id\":\"9ee ...\",\"parent\":\"abc...\"}\n"}That is, an element in the JSON is a string with escaped json.So, I have...
View ArticleParsing nested json with jq - Cannot index string [duplicate]
I cannot work out what is happening here.I am using Amazon Secret Manager in a ec2 user_data bash script to retrieve a secret to be used on ec2 bootup.SECRET_VALUE=$(aws secretsmanager get-secret-value...
View ArticleRemove last character from json output using JQ
I have a json that looks like this:{ "HostedZones": [ {"ResourceRecordSetCount": 2,"CallerReference": "test20150527-2","Config": {"Comment": "test2","PrivateZone": true },"Id":...
View Articlesort json object numerically by key
I have the following json format. It's basically a representation of the calendar:{"month1": {"day1":{...}, "day2": {...}}, "month2": {...}}I'd like to sort it such that both the months and the days...
View Articleusing jq want to parse array nested inside object. But the entire object gets...
json ={"Country":"India","States": [{"Name":"TN","Cities":["city1","city2"]},{"Name":"KL","Cities":["city3","city4"]}]}query = {country:.Country,states: .States | (foreach .[] as $item (0;...
View ArticleHow can I put integer as an argument in jq?
I have been trying to use jq to parse a json file returned from the aws cli, but I'm stuck with the problem of referencing an array using the index number. I need to do this because I want to export a...
View Articlehow to get the intersection of two JSON arrays using jq
Given arrays X and Y (preferably both as inputs, but otherwise, with one as input and the other hardcoded), how can I use jq to output the array containing all elements common to both? e.g. what is a...
View ArticleThe entire object gets duplicated in output when trying to parse array nested...
I have the following json data:{"Country": "India","States": [ {"Name": "TN","Cities": ["city1","city2" ] }, {"Name": "KL","Cities": ["city3","city4" ] } ]}jq expression:{ country:.Country,states:...
View Articlejq: adding nested object to a JSON
I have a json file containing several profiles:{"profile1": {"user": "user1","channel": "channel1","hook": "hook1" },"default": {"user": "user1","channel": "channel1","hook": "hook2" }}I want to use jq...
View ArticleWhy is JQ throwing a "cannot iterate over null" error at EOF?
i have a json array where each entry has this structure:{ inputarray: {[ {"header": "YouTube Music","title": "Watched Nu Nu Meta Phenomena","titleUrl":...
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