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Re:jq 1.7 released by taway1237 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:40AM (#37416643)
This also won't work since it'll crash on missing fields. e.get("commit", {}).get("author", "") maybe (ignoring the corner case of non-list top level object).
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Re:jq 1.7 released by Perepiska on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:49AM (#37431171)
Which is pretty useful - I will get malformed JSON error as earlier as possible.

P.S. `some.get("A", {})["B"]` is bad programming habit because there might be a list on `some["A"]`

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