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The speed is not concern for me. I am wondering if there something better than `jq` in terms of syntax. Whenever I want to get something more that just prettify json output in the console or simply get value by specific field name I have a problem, for me it is just difficult to remember jq syntax without looking into history. As well have in my notes links to examples like this one

https://mosermichael.github.io/jq-illustrated/dir/content.ht...



For my part, I've always wanted a tool that just replicates PostgreSQL's JSON syntax. That way I can have only one syntax to remember.


One of the main ideas of query-json is to provide excelent errors. So, it would teach you by using the tool.

and there are a few techniques to "discover" the schema of the json file, I trend to read with '.' or 'keys' and later keep going.

I'm planning to implement a flag where each operation prints the internal state of the json, so you would see what are the "pipes".

I will pick a few of your cheatsheet to implement next in q, Thanks!


Check out jql [https://github.com/cube2222/jql] and oj [https://github.com/ohler55/ojg]


definitively will take a look, I've never heard of `jql` before, thanks


Might want to take a look at some of these alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470715


My humble attempt https://github.com/jsqry/jsqry-cli2




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