If you do not have jq installed or if you like SQL more to query/handle your data, you can rely on sqlite. For example: sqlite3 <<< "select json_extract(valu

If you do not have jq installed or if you like SQL more to query/handle your data, you can rely on sqlite. For example: sqlite3 <<< "select json_extract(value, '$.Plan.Plans[0].Output') from json_each(readfile('explain.json'))" Reference: https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html