In my role as a Data Engineer, I have an ever-increasing need for Querying JSON documents using the CLI (command line interface) in these ways:
Filtering the output from a cloud CLI to just the useful information Extracting the output from an API Evaluating JSON documents to ingest them into a database. Reformatting information to submit to an API Software/data archaeology
For the use cases above uploading JSON to a DB is overkill or premature, so the jq command line utility allows me to query JSON documents from the command line. This tool is written in C and