jq

Personal jq expression language reference

• create custom output with string interpolation from array of objects bash .[] | "\(.var1) \(.var2)"
• count number of elements in array bash .[] | length
• loop an array and run command for each element bash jq -c '.[]' input.json | while read i; do done
• filter an array of object based on a parameter bash jq '.[] | select(.param_name) | "\(.param_to_print)"'