I don't really see what your complaint is. The problem you're describing isn't a shortcoming of jq and the other tools in the article, it's a shortcoming of th

I don't really see what your complaint is. The problem you're describing isn't a shortcoming of jq and the other tools in the article, it's a shortcoming of the brain dead JSON encoding. If you need to process data like that, you'll have to console yourself to the fact it won't be process-able as a shell one-liner.