faq

This is an incredibly useful one-liner. Thank you for sharing! I'm a big fan of jq, having written my own jq wrapper that supports multiple formats (github.com/jzelinskie/faq), but these days I find myself more quickly reaching for Python when I get any amount of complexity. Being able to use uv scripts in Python has considerably lowered the bar for me to use it for scripting. Where are you drawing the line?

This related project, on the other hand, embraced it (for better or for worse): https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq

Stepping just a little beyond regular ‘loop and filter’ is already difficult without consulting the manual each time — being exacerbated by the impossibility of finding those things in the manual without skimming through most of it. Making an ‘if’ for variations in the input structure is easily a twenty-minute job. Outside of the basic features, Jq's syntax is increasingly arcane and unintuitive—maybe those working with it daily do remember the ‘advanced’ stuff, but I don't. I actually collected a sizable list of alternatives to Jq: https://github.com/TomConlin/json2xpath https://github.com/antonmedv/fx https://github.com/simeji/jid https://github.com/jmespath/jp https://jsonnet.org https://github.com/borkdude/jet https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq https://github.com/dflemstr/rq https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq And there's someone else's list

For everyone pining for a Jq with a different syntax: I have a bunch of links to alternatives collected, you might want to try some of them (some may be for different things than JSON): https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq https://github.com/TomConlin/json2xpath https://github.com/antonmedv/fx https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq https://github.com/simeji/jid https://github.com/jmespath/jp https://github.com/cube2222/jql https://jsonnet.org https://github.com/borkdude/jet https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq https://github.com/dflemstr/rq Personally I think that next time I might just fire up Hy and use its functional capabilities.

I use https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq/

Shameless plug: if you really like jq, I built a project that uses libjq to process various formats. https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq

I've done a similar thing, but using jq syntax on any object-like file: https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq Ya know how some people want everything to be vim after they use it? I'm surprised more people haven't done that with other tools.

Shameless plug: I've been toying with a "format-agnositic jq" for all of these object like formats: https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq Here's an interesting example of using bencode which is the object format for BitTorrent: curl -sL https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/debian-9.4.0-amd64-netins… | faq -f bencode 'del(.info.pieces)' -o json { "announce": "http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/announce", "comment": "\"Debian CD from cdimage.debian.org\"", "creation date": 1520682848, "httpseeds": [ "https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/9.4.0//srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb…", "https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/9.4.0//srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb…