gron VS dasel

It buffers all of its output statements in memory before writing to stdout:

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron/blob/master/main.go#L204

Have you tried `gron`?

It converts your nested json into a line by line format which plays better with tools like `grep`

From the project's README:

▶ gron "https://api.github.com/repos/tomnomnom/gron/commits?per_page..." | fgrep "commit.author"

json[0].commit.author = {};

json[0].commit.author.date = "2016-07-02T10:51:21Z";

json[0].commit.author.email = "[email protected]";

json[0].commit.author.name = "Tom Hudson";

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

It was suggested to me in HN comments on an article I wrote about `jq`, and I have found myself using it a lot in my day to day workflow

> So all I want is a tool to go from json => line oriented and I will do the rest with the vast library of experience I already have at transformations on the command line.*

The tool for that is likely https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

If JQ is too much, see GRON &| Miller

gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

And jless [1] and gron [2].

This is the first I'm hearing of gron, but adding here for completeness sake. Meanwhile, JSON seems to be becoming a standard for CLI tools. Ideal scenario would be if every CLI tool has a --json flag or something similar, so that jc is not needed anymore.

[1] https://jless.io/

[2] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

Other tools I am a big fan of are jq and gron, if those had XML counterparts many of the above tasks could be built using them. If your XML library could take Wasm extensions, then users could write their own predicates and you wouldn't need to implement your own language like jq did, it has its own internal bytecode based VM an jq language.

wget https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/download/v2.1.2/dasel_linux_amd64 install -o root -g root -m 0755 dasel_linux_amd64 /usr/bin/dasel

https://github.com/TomWright/dasel handles JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV

dasel - Comparable to jq / yq, but supports JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV with zero runtime dependencies.

Another tool in this space is Dasel[1], which can handle querying/modifying JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV files.

[1] https://github.com/TomWright/dasel

There also is dasel which combine jq, yq as well handling TOML, XML and CSV

dasel # most common human readable configs(json, yaml, xml...)

I have recently switched to Dasel (https://github.com/TomWright/dasel ) due to its ability to work not only with JSON but also with other formats.