Title: "Exploring long JSON files with jq" Date: 2017-01-12 16:38:00 Categories: [data processing] tags: [json, jq]
The JSON file format is used for marshalling data in lots of different applications. If you are new to an application, and don’t know the data, it might be hard to visually parse the JSON and understand what you are seeing. The jq command line utility can help make it easier to scope in to a section of the file.