6 engineers on Hacker News describe using jq first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“JQ + journald is great too, but 20 years of muscle memory writing bash / python / perl / awk / sql / ruby / JS”
endorse · personal · seanp2k2 · 2023-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having an api I can hit with curl that returns json I can parse with jq is super convenient.”
endorse · production · empath75 · 2017-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using jq quite a bit lately and agree that the docs would benefit from more complex examples. However, I've been able to get some fairly complex solutions done with jq.”
mixed · personal · ajmurmann · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using jq for several years but still can't write anything more complex than simple XPath”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · schmooser · 2020-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it as a pretty-printer for a while now, it never occurred to me that you could use it to filter items out.”
neutral · personal · commandlinefan · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it is so much less awkward than piping curl into jq and struggling with curl's POST body options”
neutral · personal · fanf2 · 2019-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?