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fx
- 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
jid
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Zq: An Easier (and Faster) Alternative to Jq
It took me a while to grok jq, but now that I do I kinda like it? I don't think I want to learn yet another thing.
I do like tools that complement/supplement jq though, like jid: https://github.com/simeji/jid
- Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON
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jless - Command Line JSON Viewer
Link for the lazy: https://github.com/simeji/jid
- FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON
- Tips on Adding JSON Output to Your CLI App
- jid
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How to navigate an API from the terminal
If you're trying to work out the structure and content of an API's JSON responses, you can keep paging through the documentation and the paged output of less or you can reach for more precise JSON parsing tools such as, jq and jid.
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Help using JQ interactively?
Yeah, I love me some jq, and my first reaction to the JSON tools page was 'What do these bring to the table that jq doesn't?". Gron and Jid changed my mind.
- My favorite cli/tui programs:
- Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
What are some alternatives?
jless - jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
jiq - jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions
m4b-tool - m4b-tool is a command line utility to merge, split and chapterize audiobook files such as mp3, ogg, flac, m4a or m4b
rq - Record Query - A tool for doing record analysis and transformation
dasel - Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.
kubectl-jq - Kubectl plugin that works like "kubectl get" but runs everything through a JQ program you provide
zed - A novel data lake based on super-structured data
ngs - Next Generation Shell (NGS)
percol - adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
murex - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
qdoc - Convert documentation within a Lua script into a Markdown file.