[kwlug-disc] Extracting data from JSON file

Chris Frey cdfrey at foursquare.net
Tue Jul 23 14:00:15 EDT 2019


On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 10:25:50PM -0400, John Sellens wrote:
> jq is really cool, but one might fairly say that the syntax is a
> little idiosyncratic.

I'll second the comments about jq.  I only learned about it recently,
and it's worth taking the time to read the man page like a
novel and grokking it all. :-)

The other alternative is to just code something quick in python
on the fly, with 'import json; json.loads...' etc.

- Chris





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