jaq VS fq

https://github.com/01mf02/jaq/blob/main/Cargo.lock

That's a lot of dependencies..

Thanks for the jqjq shoutout! :) i'm quite sure jq is turing complete, jq (and jqjq!) can implement brainfuck https://github.com/01mf02/jaq/blob/main/examples/bf.jq

/uj Because of this post, I have learned I could have been using jaq instead of jq.

There's also jaq which is written in Rust, aims for compatibility with jq (except some specific features), and boasts better performance.

jaq is closer to that

if [[ $(hyprctl -j getoption general:layout | jaq -r '.str') = "master" ]]; then hyprctl keyword general:layout "dwindle" else hyprctl keyword general:layout "master" fi you'll need https://github.com/01mf02/jaq

You will need https://github.com/01mf02/jaq

I've been getting a lot of mileage out of https://github.com/itchyny/gojq#readme recently due to two things: its vastly superior error messages and the (regrettably verbose) `--yaml-input` option

I also have https://github.com/01mf02/jaq#readme installed but just haven't needed it

I see, thanks for replying and no worries! yeap some of the "self-describing" formats like msgpack, cbor etc will because of how fq works have to be decoded into something more of a meta-msgpack etc.

About blobs, if you want to change how (possibly large) binaries are represented as JSON you can use the bits_format options, see https://github.com/wader/fq/blob/master/doc/usage.md#options, so fq -o bits_format=md5 torepr ...

I can highly recommend to learn jq, it's what makes fq really useful, and as a bonus you will learn jq in general! :)

Hey! fq author here. I have a bunch of related tools in the readme https://github.com/wader/fq?tab=readme-ov-file#tools two suggestions: gnu poke and wireshark (can decode lots of more things then just network protocol)

Did someone say let's represent structured data as json? a bit of shameless plug: https://github.com/wader/fq :) It's using a fork of gojq btw!

https://github.com/wader/fq has a REPL and can read JSON. Tip is to use "paste | from_json | repl" in a REPl to paste JSON into a sub-REPL, you can also use `` with fq which is a raw string literal

I do lots of exploratory work in various structure data, in my case often debugging media filea via https://github.com/wader/fq, which mean doing lots of use-once-queries on the command line or REPL. In those cases jq line-friendly and composable syntax and generators really shine.