jq.md

Using jq in Bash

In this example we:

• cat the test.json (could equally curl from the API and pipe into jq)
• use jq to get the filename and content_type from all the objects in the assets array delimited with a :.
• pipe the result into column to lay the data out by using the : delimiter to tabulate the result

cat /tmp/test.json | jq -r '.assets | .[] | "\(.filename)" + ":" + "\(.content_type)"' | column -t -s:

Links

• https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/
• https://remysharp.com/drafts/jq-recipes
• https://gist.github.com/olih/f7437fb6962fb3ee9fe95bda8d2c8fa4
• column: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3202766/viewing-linux-output-in-columns.html