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To A Man With `jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON

https://ishan.page/blog/2023-12-07-jq-hammer-nails/

Featured Photo by energepic.com I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Bootstrap for a long time. While I love how fast it lets me get going, I absolutely hate the cookie cutter vibe of most of the stuff that I end up making with it. Bootswatch is awesome, and I know that I could customize my theme with SASS variables, but that adds a build step, which is additional complexity that I want to avoid when I am making business/CRUD applications.

To A Man With `jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON

8 comments

joyjoy

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For everything else, there's yq, xq, and tomlq.

snowe

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I use all these tools so little that I have to relearn them every single time, making them much less useful to me than they would be otherwise.

kogasa

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yq is a wrapper around jq iirc and has the same syntax, but it do yaml.

Small disclaimer that i think there may be 2 tools known as yq and this is only true of one of them.

snowe

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I meant tools like jq. I hardly ever use it as it’s hard to use and as a result I forget it making it even harder to use. The same applies to awk, sed, etc. Any tool with a bunch of command line flags and hard to understand arguments and syntax will always be low on my “want to use” list. Ripgrep is a prime example of how to build a command line app that is easy to use every time without trying to remember a billion things.

curiousaur

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JSON > Yaml

CmdrKeen

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And jc, apparently: https://programming.dev/post/7063427

mrkite

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One of our data providers gives us hundred megabyte json files. Whenever there is a problem with the data they request examples, jq is invaluable in those instances.

superbirra

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yeah, ls | while read file; do echo blabla $file; done