jq Commands Cheat Sheet

Parse JSON

jq '.key' file.json
jq '.data[0]' file.json
jq '.users[] | .name' file.json

Filter

jq '.[] | select(.age > 18)' file.json
jq 'map(select(.active == true))' file.json

Transform

jq '{ name: .fullName, age: .userAge }' file.json