this whole thread is like nerd sniping me :-D but I felt compelled to draw attention to jq's coalesce operator because I only recently learned about it and sear

this whole thread is like nerd sniping me :-D but I felt compelled to draw attention to jq's coalesce operator because I only recently learned about it and searching for the word "coalesce" in the man page is pfffft (it's official name is "Alternative operator", with alternative being "for false and null") $ echo '[{"a": {"count": null}}]' | jq -c 'sort_by(-(.count//0))' [{"a":{"count":null}}]