gron is great, i have this in my init.jq file for fq (https://github.com/wader/fq https://github.com/wader/fq). Sadly jq lacks a path_to_expr function so a bit

gron is great, i have this in my init.jq file for fq (https://github.com/wader/fq https://github.com/wader/fq). Sadly jq lacks a path_to_expr function so a bit harder to do it with that. def gron: ( path(..) as $p | getpath($p) | scalars | "\($p | path_to_expr) = \(tojson)" | println ); Ex: $ fq gron <<< '{"a": [1,2,{"b": 3}]}' .a[0] = 1 .a[1] = 2 .a[2].b = 3 Great for copy/paste into other expressions when poking around.