> And yes I would prefer your second "mental overhead" way as it involves less typing. 1. It doesn't, just use zsh and piping into grep becomes a single charac

> And yes I would prefer your second "mental overhead" way as it involves less typing. 1. It doesn't, just use zsh and piping into grep becomes a single character, like so: alias -g G='|grep -P' 2. Even apart from that I'm a bit sceptical that you can conjure up and type the necessary jq invocation in less time than you can type the fully spelled out grep line.