We’re building a website using the Pentaho CTools library, which has a graphical dashboard editor which writes out JSON-format files for part of the dashboard. I’d like to apply a transform to these files before check-in to git in order to sort them by key and then by the value of certain keys. The purpose … Read more
Given a JSON file, arguments.json: When calling reading the variables as such: [out]: The variable contains the quotation marks “”. How to remove the quotes when reading a variable in jq? I could use sed to strip the quotes as such: [out]:
Use the -r (or –raw-output) option to emit raw strings as output:
I need to know the most efficient way of installing JQ on Mac (El Capitan). The code is downloaded to my Mac but I would like to know how I can install and operate it via the command line.
Adapted from this post on Processing JSON with jq, you can use the select(bool) like this: