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Read and Use JSON in Bash with jq
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Bash, unfortunately, doesn’t ship with a command that can work with JSON natively. In this lesson, we’ll learn how to read and do basic queries on JSON with jq, an installable command line tool that makes working with JSON in bash really easy. We'll pipe the JSON output of the Github API to jq to extract values.
Note: jq has to be installed. On macOS, the easiest way to do this is to run brew install jq. To view install instructions for all platforms, see https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/.
Hrmm, fails in zsh
echo ['1,2,3'] | jq '.[]'
zsh: no matches found: [1,2,3]
Hrmm, fails in zsh
echo ['1,2,3'] | jq '.[]'
zsh: no matches found: [1,2,3]It should be echo '[1,2,3]' | jq '.[]' with the single quotes surrounding the [].
Hrmm, fails in zsh
echo ['1,2,3'] | jq '.[]'
zsh: no matches found: [1,2,3]It should be echo '[1,2,3]' | jq '.[]' with the single quotes surrounding the [].
Both work in iTerm2.
I had to wrap the url into the double quotes, I was getting curl -s https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=service+worker
zsh: no matches found: https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=service+worker otherwise