How to parse json in terminal using jq

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:43:39 +0530

A practical tutorial on `jq`

So here’s the problem statement: Find the repository on github in which you have made most number of commits? And you need to do this on terminal (no python)

Ofcourse, one can use python to find the answer, and it might be probably easy for you, if you have been using python for last many years. But let’s see if I can do this in terminal with jq and while doing so, let’s learn about it.

How to `find` files in terminal?

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:26:20 +0530

Manager: Hey, I need your help, I have couple of images that are taking a lot of space on my PC, I want to delete them. How can I do that?

Developer: Well that should be simple. Here, you go. This looks for all files with .png extension in the current directory and its subdirectories (using -R flag), then pipes those file names to rm command to delete them.

ls -R | grep ".png$" | xargs rm

Manager: Nice, but wait. This will delete all the png files in the current directory and its subdirectories. I only want to delete in specific directories.

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How to parse json in terminal using jq

A practical tutorial on jq

How to `find` files in terminal?

A practical tutorial on `jq`