`jq` and `GNU Parallel` share a world in my brain where I know they're wonderful tools, but I spend more time grokking the syntax of each one as rarely as I nee

`jq` and `GNU Parallel` share a world in my brain where I know they're wonderful tools, but I spend more time grokking the syntax of each one as rarely as I need either, than just writing a bash/sed/awk/perl, ruby, or python script to do what I need.