jq VS fzf

Compare jq vs fzf and see what are their differences.

fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder (by junegunn)
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jq fzf
52 407
29,042 59,739
1.9% -
9.4 9.6
3 days ago about 23 hours ago
C Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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 2024-04-21.
  • Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language. (2021)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
  • Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
  • I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    I think like you. But also, one does not necessarily know beforehand that they will want to make money.

    Like a project could be born out of pure generosity, but after the happy initial phase the project might get too heavy on the maintenance requirements, causing the author to approach burnout, and possibly deciding that they want to make money to continue pulling the cart forward.

    However, here's something I do think: if you create something as Open Source, it should be out of a mentality of goodwill and for the greater good, regardless of how it ends up being used. OSS licenses do mean this with their terms. If you later get tired or burned out, you should just retire and allow the community to keep taking care of it. Just like it happened with the Jq tool [1].

    [1]: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7

  • How to load JSON data in PostgreSQL with the the COPY command
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Feb 2024
    In this blog we'll see how to upload the JSON directly using PostgreSQL COPY command and using an utility called jq!
  • How to Recover Locally Deleted Files From Github
    1 project | dev.to | 31 Jan 2024
    And we can then make it easier to find the commit by filtering the response with jq.
  • Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
    29 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024
    Official Documentation: jqlang.github.io/jq
  • Command line tools I always install on Ubuntu servers
    4 projects | dev.to | 25 Dec 2023
    To handle JSON files and JSON outputs in a script or format and highlight it, jq can be very handy. Many command line tools provide a json output, so you don't have to write a custom parser for a table a list in a terminal. Instead of that, you can use jq to get a specific value from the output or even modify the output. For more information, you can visit https://jqlang.github.io/jq/
  • How I use Nix in my Elm projects
    8 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    In some projects I've wanted to use HTTPie to test APIs and jq to work with some JSON data. Nix has been really helpful in managing those dependencies that I can't easily get from npm.
  • Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    > I'd love to see programs communicate through a typed JSON/proto format that shed enough details to make this more independent, and get useful shell command structuring/completion or full blown GUIs from simply introspecting the expected input and output types.

    You should try PowerShell. It's basically Microsoft's .NET ecosystem molded into an interactive command line. I'm not entirely sure if PoweShell can make full use of the static types that build up its core, but its ability to exchange objects in the command line is almost unmatched.

    On Linux you can use `jc` (https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc) combined with `jq` (https://jqlang.github.io/jq/) to glue together command lines.

  • To a Man with `Jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023
    Yeah, but muscle memory bites me all the time and I put the backslash on the closing paren, too, because I'm so used to the regex usage of that syntax which needs them to match

    I also want to draw the reader's attention to the magic of |@uri <https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/jq-1.7/docs/content/manual...> for a bunch of cases, but doubly so in TFA's case where they're plugging strings into a URI context. Simple string concat often works great for "hello world", but the world is not always just hello, so one quick use of the filter and jq's got your back

      echo "the world's scary" | jq -Rr '"\(.)"'

fzf

Posts with mentions or reviews of fzf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-25.
  • Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2024
    In addition, I think bash's `operate-and-get-next` can be very helpful. When you go back through your shell history, you can hit Ctrl+o instead of enter and it will execute the command then put the next one in your history on the command line, and keep track of where you are in your history. This way, you can rerun a bunch of commands by going to the first one and Ctrl+o till you are done. And you can edit those commands and hit Ctrl+o and still go to the next previously run command.

    Note: fzf's history search feature breaks this. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/2399

  • pyfzf : Python Fuzzy Finder
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2024
    fzf : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
  • Command Line Fuzzy Search
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
  • So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024
    Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig.

    "git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    "git gone" removes local branches that don't exist on the remote.

    "git root" prints out the root of the repo. You can alias it to "cd $(git root)", and zip back to the repo root from a deep directory structure. This one is less useful now for me since I started using zoxide to jump around. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

  • Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
    > my history is so noisy I had to find another way

    The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2].

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax

    [2]: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...

  • Z – Jump Around
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024
    You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.

    I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.

    ¹ https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

    ² https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

  • alacritty-themes not working any more!!!
    6 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2024
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  • Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues

    [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    [2] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

  • Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
    You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...

  • Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023

What are some alternatives?

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

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

peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool

jp - Validate and transform JSON with Bash

zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

gojq - Pure Go implementation of jq

z - z - jump around

Jolt - JSON to JSON transformation library written in Java.

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

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.

mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!

jmespath.py - JMESPath is a query language for JSON.

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console