Differences between revisions 6 and 8 (spanning 2 versions)

jq

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

Slackbuild

   1 cd /tmp
   2 wget https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/system/jq.tar.gz
   3 tar xvzf jq.tar.gz
   4 cd jq
   5 wget https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.4/jq-1.4.tar.gz
   6 ./jq.SlackBuild
   7 installpkg /tmp/jq-1.4-i486-1_SBo.tgz

jq-1.4-i486-1_SBo.tgz

Change values

test.json

   1 {
   2   "keyx":12,
   3   "keyz":"ddff"
   4 }

test2.json

   1 {
   2   "keyx":12,
   3   "keyz":"ddff",
   4   "arr":[1,2,3,4]
   5 }

   1 jq '.keyx = 55 | .keyz = "otherVal"' test.json
   2 # output
   3 {
   4   "keyx": 55,
   5   "keyz": "otherVal"
   6 }

Get value from key

   1 jq '.keyx' test.json 
   2 # output
   3 12
   4 
   5 jq '.arr[2]' test2.json 
   6 #output
   7 3

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+'''test2.json'''
{{{#!highlight javascript
{
  "keyx":12,
  "keyz":"ddff",
  "arr":[1,2,3,4]
}
}}}
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+jq '.arr[2]' test2.json 
#output
3