rb VS jp

I like using `jq` to create line-delimited JSON and then using a language I know well (Node) to process it after that point. I find `jq '.[] | select(.location=="Stockholm")'` less readable than something like `nq --filter '({location}) => location === "Stockholm"'` because I'm much more used to Node syntax.

- https://github.com/thisredone/rb is a widely used ruby version of this idea

- https://github.com/KelWill/nq#readme is something similar that I wrote for my own use

You might be interested by this little script https://github.com/thisredone/rb

I have a hard time suggesting such a thing, because I find JMESPath incredibly inferior to jq's expressiveness, but if you're in the AWS ecosystem much, you may enjoy https://github.com/jmespath/jp#readme which uses the same query language as does awscli (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-f...). That may at least pay more dividends than keeping jq's language in your head where it will only ever be used by jq

Have you tried this utility instead: https://github.com/jmespath/jp

There’s also jp, which interprets JMESPath: https://github.com/jmespath/jp

This one has the advantage of being natively understood by aws-cli, meaning you can pass a JMESPath to an AWS call and only receive the filtered / transformed result back.