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Re:Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files by webo on Friday June 21, 2019 @05:59PM (#20246622)
as far as i can tell, jq doesn't do flattening .
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Re:Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files by pstuart on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:47PM (#20246878)
Not built in, but @jolmg posted a script here which does the needful.
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Re:Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files by lucb1e on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:05PM (#20246647)
Maybe GP meant that jq can do selection as well, i.e. that grepping is redundant after jq. But jq is much more complicated to learn and grep works on all inputs (not just json), so it makes a lot more sense to learn and use grep properly.
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