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# jq
> A lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
- Output a JSON file, in pretty-print format:
`cat {{file}} | jq`
- Output all elements from arrays (or all key-value pairs from objects) in a JSON file:
`cat {{file}} | jq .[]`
- Read JSON objects from a file into an array, and output it (inverse of `jq .[]`):
`cat {{file}} | jq --slurp`
- Output the first element in a JSON file:
`cat {{file}} | jq .[0]`
- Output the value of a given key of the first element in a JSON file:
`cat {{file}} | jq .[0].{{key_name}}`
- Output the value of a given key of each element in a JSON file:
`cat {{file}} | jq 'map(.{{key_name}})'`