jless VS jq

Compare jless vs jq and see what are their differences.

jless

jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data. (by PaulJuliusMartinez)

jq

Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq] (by stedolan)
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jless jq
34 306
4,487 25,063
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6.3 0.0
about 1 month ago 11 months ago
Rust C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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jless

Posts with mentions or reviews of jless. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-29.

jq

Posts with mentions or reviews of jq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jless and jq you can also consider the following projects:

fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor

yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents

jq - Command-line JSON processor

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.

jsonpath-rust - Support for json-path in Rust

gojq - Pure Go implementation of jq

jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool

json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans

dsq - Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more.

jp - Validate and transform JSON with Bash

qp - query-pipe: command-line (ND)JSON querying

nushell - A new type of shell