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Data Formats ¶

Markdown ¶

• Basic syntax
• Daring Fireball
• Render markdown in CLI
• Kramdown syntax
• SimpleMDE - Simple Markdown Editor

JSON ¶

• json.org
• json api - a specification for building APIs in json

JQ ¶

• jq github
• jq documentation
• jq play
• jq term
• Mastering jq

slurp

Slurp - Convert lines of json objects to a json list using -s / --slurp:

$ cat file.txt
{"id":1,"name":"Foo"}
{"id":2,"name":"Bar"}

$ cat file.txt | jq --slurp '.'

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Foo"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Bar"
  }
]

select() on array of objects

Only return objects where name is Bar:

$ cat file.txt
[{"id":1,"name":"Foo"},{"id":2,"name":"Bar"}]

$ cat file.txt | jq '. | select(.name=="Bar")'

[
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Bar"
  }
]