Why use a special syntax that's hard to remember when you can just use Python? I wrote a jq-like that accepts Python syntax called pq: https://github.com/dvolk

Why use a special syntax that's hard to remember when you can just use Python? I wrote a jq-like that accepts Python syntax called pq: https://github.com/dvolk/pq https://github.com/dvolk/pq So you can write stuff like: $ echo '{ "US": 3, "China": 12, "UK": 1 }' | pq -c "sum(data.values())" 16