aq

Extend jq for any data format. Currently supports JSON, TOML, and YAML.

📦 Installation

Pre-built binaries for 64-bit Linux, macOS, and Windows are provided. The following script can be used to automatically detect your host system, download the required artifact, and extract the aq binary to the given directory.

curl --proto '=https' -fLsS https://rossmacarthur.github.io/install/crate.sh \
    | bash -s -- --repo rossmacarthur/aq --to ~/.local/bin

Alternatively, you can download an artifact directly from the the releases page.

Cargo

aq can be installed from Crates.io using Cargo, the Rust package manager.

cargo install aq-cli

🤸 Usage

By default aq behaves just like jq and operates on JSON.

$ echo '{"foo":{"bar": 1337}}' | aq .foo

{
  "bar": 1337
}

But it also accepts options to specify the input and output format. For example with a TOML input and a JSON output:

$ echo '[foo]\nbar = 1337' | aq -i toml -o json .foo

{
  "bar": 1337
}

If not provided, the output format defaults to the input format. Additionally, you can use j for JSON, t for TOML, and y for YAML for maximum brevity.

$ echo '[foo]\nbar = 1337' | aq -it .foo

bar = 1337

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.