I agree. jq makes the easy stuff easy, but the syntax gets weird pretty quickly. You might like fx [0]. Run on its own, it’s a command line JSON browser (you c

I agree. jq makes the easy stuff easy, but the syntax gets weird pretty quickly. You might like fx [0]. Run on its own, it’s a command line JSON browser (you can even click on items to expand/collapse them), and you can also write little JS one-liners to do stuff like map over an array and transform the items. Something like this, to extract the name from an array of users, for instance: fx users.json ‘u => u.name’ 0: https://github.com/antonmedv/fx https://github.com/antonmedv/fx