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JQ(1)

NAME

jq — Command-line JSON processor — sed for JSON data

SYNOPSIS

$sudo apt install jq

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DESCRIPTION

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. It's like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice, filter, map, and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep, and friends let you work with text.

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