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- Bash/Zsh autocomplete for JSON fields
- Fx 32.0, now with YAML support too
- Fx JSON viewer now supports YAML
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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
There's also this awesome tool to make JSON interactively navigable in the terminal:
- Fx 31.0.0 Release
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 30 Oct 2023
- jq 1.7
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Modern Linux Tools vs. Unix Classics: Which Would I Choose?
Using awk/sed to parse json seems to be using the wrong tool for the job.
As an alternative to jq with easier to remember syntax, see https://fx.wtf/
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567009
- Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer
- fx – terminal JSON viewer
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Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer
This fx rewrite is very exciting. I'll have to try it. I thought of fx as a wrapper around jq, that allowed quick iteration over building jq scripts. Sort of an Ultimate Plumber [1] but only for jq. It looks like it is now more like a JavaScript processor plus an interactive viewer.
Someone mention Visidata[2]? VisiData is also a TUI that is great on tabular data, and it can work with json. If your JSON is mostly tabular in nature, Visidata does a great job at showing that data and allowing you to explore it. A lot of json I deal with is tabular-like data. There is a great tutorial [3], that can help you get your bearings with Visidata. Once you understand those basics you might want to look at this thread [4] for what commands you can use with json.
[1] Ultimate Plumber: https://github.com/akavel/up
- Up: Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview
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Show HN: LineSelect, shell utility to interactively select lines in a pipeline
Ultimate plumber can do this.
- Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview
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`jqp`, a TUI playground for `jq`
Been using up for years but this looks nice too
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An interactive wrapper around `jq`
Fun. But I can achieve the same result (I think) with ultimate plumber and regular jq, but without being restricted just to jq. Feel free to correct me.
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What are some useful cli tools that arent popular?
Up - The Ultimate Plumber makes the best pipes !
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A list of new(ish) command line tools – Julia Evans
As an alternative allowing the use of any shell command/pipeline on the results interactively, see also: https://github.com/akavel/up
- RegExr: Learn, Build and Test Regex
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Is there any command-line application that you wish existed but doesn't (or isn't as good as you wished)?
Would https://github.com/akavel/up solve your problem?
What are some alternatives?
jless - jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
nvim-jqx - Populate the quickfix with json entries
jiq - jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions
dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
jid - json incremental digger
zsh-history-substring-search - 🐠 ZSH port of Fish history search (up arrow)
rq - Record Query - A tool for doing record analysis and transformation
fzf-tab - Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!
kubectl-jq - Kubectl plugin that works like "kubectl get" but runs everything through a JQ program you provide
hurl - Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
ngs - Next Generation Shell (NGS)
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications