jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor akin to sed,awk,grep, and friends for JSON data. It's written in portable C and has zero runtime dependencies, allowing you to easily slice, filter, map, and transform structured data.
Download the latest releases from the GitHub release page.
Pull the jq image to start quickly with Docker.
Example: Extracting the version from apackage.json file
docker run --rm -i ghcr.io/jqlang/jq:latest < package.json '.version'Example: Extracting the version from a
package.json file with a mounted volume
docker run --rm -i -v "$PWD:$PWD" -w "$PWD" ghcr.io/jqlang/jq:latest '.version' package.json
git submodule update --init # if building from git to get oniguruma autoreconf -i # if building from git ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin make clean # if upgrading from a version previously built from source make -j8 make check sudo make install
Build a statically linked version:
If you're not using the latest git version but instead building a released tarball (available on the release page), skip the autoreconf step, and flex or bison won't be needed.
For details on cross-compilation, check out the GitHub Actions file and the cross-compilation wiki page.
jq is released under the MIT License. jq's documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. jq uses parts of the open source C library "decNumber", which is distributed under ICU License
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