jq

tools_command_line

Parse JSON with jq

'jq' - GitHub pre-built binaries --- Run jq in Docker jq man page accepts filename or STDIN ; use to grab specific elements/nodes, manipulate the data, find unique items, etc. AWESOME

Example: grab one key from each record

jq .url

Example: use select() for conditional output

output only records/objects that contain a non-NULL \"server_name" field

jq 'select(.server_name != null)'

or

tail -100f ssl.log|jq 'select(.server_name != null)'