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#JavaScript

I've used jq for a long while to handle JSON from the command line. I've found the syntax hard to remember. I handle complicated things with jq infrequently. Causing the little learned to not stick.

I use JavaScript regularly. Why not just use JavaScript?

#!/usr/bin/env node
const p = require('process');

let text = '';
let json = null;

p.stdin.on('data', data => text += data.toString().trim());

p.stdin.on('end', () => {
        try { json = JSON.parse(text); } catch {}
        p.argv.slice(2).forEach(arg => console.log(eval(arg)));
});

This is a NodeJS script that should be placed in a bin folder and set as executable, chmod +x.

Example usage:

$ curl -sS https://unpkg.com/angular@1.8.2/package.json | ~/bin/js 'var ident = json.keywords[0]; ident.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + ident.slice(1) + " is a client side web framework."'
Angular is a client side web framework.

All of NodeJS is available to the tiny script. Two global are provided for you text and json, json will be null if stdin was not valid JSON.

Additonally, if you're a fan of lodash, this js version includes lodash in top-level scope. E.G. functions such as first become availabe.

curl -sS https://unpkg.com/angular@1.8.2/package.json | ~/bin/js 'first(json.keywords)'

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