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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by crehn on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:34AM (#17143789)
Honorable mention to jq. Also get comfy with Unix pipes and streams.

e.g. testing in CI a JSON file is properly formatted:

  jq . < $f | diff -u $f -
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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by frou_dh on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:58AM (#17150978)
Personally, I'm not too interested in any commands that take string arguments in their own homegrown programming language[0]. I'd rather use something like this[1] than jq, to get some extra ROI out of one of the languages I already know.

[0]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/

[1]: https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

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