While jq is definitely faster, for more complex tasks I love using ramda-cli [1]. It has all the functions from the excellent Ramda [2] AND you can use LiveScri

While jq is definitely faster, for more complex tasks I love using ramda-cli [1]. It has all the functions from the excellent Ramda [2] AND you can use LiveScript's [3] terser syntax (and pipes!). Here's a quick command to output a list of recent files on Linux: xml2json < ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel | ramda '.xbel.bookmark |> pluck \href |> map replace /file:\/\//, ""' -o raw 1. https://github.com/raine/ramda-cli https://github.com/raine/ramda-cli 2. http://ramdajs.com/ http://ramdajs.com/ 3. http://livescript.net/ http://livescript.net/