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jq
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I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
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].
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
Official Documentation: jqlang.github.io/jq
View on GitHub
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Command line tools I always install on Ubuntu servers
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/
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How I use Nix in my Elm projects
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.
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Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
> 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.
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To a Man with `Jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON
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 '"\(.)"'
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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
I think the original devs just got burnt out for a while https://github.com/jqlang/jq/issues/2305#issuecomment-157263...
jq 1.7 do preserve large integers but will truncate if any operation is done on them. Unfortunetly it currently truncates to a decimal64 which is a bit confusing, this will be fixed in next release where it follow the suggestion from the JSON spec and truncates to binary64 (double) https://github.com/jqlang/jq/pull/2949
The fact that jq takes almost a second to run on a Pi is crazy[0]. And the tool is written in C.
gron
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Show HN: Flatito, grep for YAML and JSON files
This looks cool!
It doesn't do quite the same thing, but a tool I've had good luck with for quick-n-dirty grepping of JSON is gron:
https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
(which I'm sure I learned about from a thread like this on HN...)
It sort of "flattens out" your JSON to allow you to do whatever you want to it (grepping, for one thing!). Then you can even turn gron's output back into JSON with `ungron`.
Maybe someone will find it a useful toolbox addition, much like the Flatito looks to be!
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Make JSON Greppable
It buffers all of its output statements in memory before writing to stdout:
- Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
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
Obligatory reference to "gron" ("make JSON greppable"), which I find to be quite useful for many common use cases:
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Interactive Examples for Learning Jq
> 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
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Modern Linux Tools vs. Unix Classics: Which Would I Choose?
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
- XML is better than YAML
What are some alternatives?
yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents
jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]
jp - Validate and transform JSON with Bash
gojq - Pure Go implementation of jq
Jolt - JSON to JSON transformation library written in Java.
jmespath.py - JMESPath is a query language for JSON.
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.
jfq - JSONata on the command line
xidel - Command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages or JSON-APIs, using CSS, XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, JSONiq or pattern matching. It can also create new or transformed XML/HTML/JSON documents.
json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans
jc - CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
jmespath-ts - Typescript translation of the jmespath.js package