jq is like
sed
for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter
and map and transform structured data with the same ease that
sed
,
awk
,
grep
and friends let you play with text.
jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime
dependencies. You can download a single binary,
scp
it to a far away
machine of the same type, and expect it to work.
jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you
want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often
shorter and simpler than you'd expect.
Go read the
tutorial
for more, or the
manual
for
way
more.
Have a question related to jq? You can seek answers on
Stack Overflow
by using the
jq tag
, or in the
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13 December 2023
jq 1.7.1 released. Security (CVE-2023-50246, CVE-2023-50268) and bug fixes.
See
release notes
for details.
7 September 2023
After a five-year hiatus, we've returned with a revitalized
GitHub organization
and a much-anticipated 1.7 release, thanks to our new admins and maintainers.
Check out the
download
page for installation options and see the
release notes
for details.
1 November 2018
jq 1.6 released. See installation options on the
download
page, and the
release notes
for details.
15 August 2015
jq 1.5 released, including new datetime, math, and regexp functions,
try/catch syntax, array and object destructuring, a streaming parser,
and a module system. See installation options on the
download
page, and the
release notes
for details.
26 July 2015
jq 1.5rc2 is available. Get it on the
releases
page.
01 January 2015
jq 1.5rc1 is available. Get it on the
releases
page.
09 June 2014
jq 1.4 (finally) released! Get it on the
download
page.
19 May 2013
jq 1.3 released.
