Emanuele Torre
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jq previously only allowed passing the inline script before -- (as if they were options) even though one would expect the inline script to be a positional argument. Since jq previously also refused to run with a usage error if the script was passed after -- (It was not assuming . as script as it does when no arguments are passed), and positional arguments are allowed before -- and even before other options, it should not be a breaking change to change that weird behaviour, and allow the script to appear after --. It also simplifies the option parsing code a bunch. Fixes #2918
jq
jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor akin tosed,awk,grep, and friends for JSON data. It's written in portable C and has zero runtime dependencies, allowing you to easily slice, filter, map, and transform structured data.
Documentation
- Official Documentation: jqlang.github.io/jq
- Try jq Online: jqplay.org
Installation
Prebuilt Binaries
Download the latest releases from the GitHub release page.
Docker Image
Pull the jq image to start quickly with Docker.
Building from source
Dependencies
- libtool
- make
- automake
- autoconf
Instructions
git submodule update --init # if building from git to get oniguruma
autoreconf -i # if building from git
./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin
make -j8
make check
sudo make install
Build a statically linked version:
make LDFLAGS=-all-static
If you're not using the latest git version but instead building a released tarball (available on the release page), skip the autoreconf step, and flex or bison won't be needed.
Cross-Compilation
For details on cross-compilation, check out the GitHub Actions file and the cross-compilation wiki page.
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License
jq is released under the MIT License.