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I was hoping jolt was a command line tool in the style of jq. I dont believe jq does transformations of json, only queries.

• mdaniel 10y ago
  > I was hoping jolt was a command line tool in the style of jq. I dont believe jq does transformations of json, only queries. I guess that depends on one's definition of transformation but: echo '{"hello": "world"}' | jq '{brave:{"new": .hello}}' it also doesn't even require JSON input, meaning one could use it strictly for composing valid output JSON: # where -n = null input jq -n --arg foo bar '{"meet me": ("at the "+$foo)}' I use it for transforming AWS responses all the time. I put jq up there with vim as one of the "must have" tools. In fact, the keys `%!jq .` are burned into my fingers because I type them a lot _ed: fixed a mobile character replacement, added in the --arg flag I couldn't remember at the time_
• dozzie 10y ago
  You should rather look at App::RecordStream. Last time I compared them jq was a poor cousin of App::RecordStream.
• fiatjaf 10y ago
  It does! And you can do wonders with it. It has functions that make it capable of doing almost anything. Also, my project https://requesthub.xyz/ https://requesthub.xyz/ relies entirely on the transformation capabilities of jq. See real world examples of jq transformations in this context: https://gist.github.com/fiatjaf/1d57953aa285b9bf5b51712268cfb97b https://gist.github.com/fiatjaf/1d57953aa285b9bf5b51712268cf...