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And this post didn't mentioned custom functions, where things are getting more interesting :-) https://acalustra.com/jq-functions-modules-and-dotfiles-tips...

At that point why not write a Python script?

I'm not disagree with you, but in this case all stored in custom dotfiles, as functions, easy to use IMHO than a custom Python script.

But I use a lot JQ, so it's super easy for me ;-)

Shameless plug, but I created jello[0] to give you the ease of parsing json in bash, but using python syntax[1]

jq is a much, much more expressive language than Python at applying similar operations to the list of inputs (with fanout!).

Yeah, jq has some of the benefits that APL users like to talk about.

How about combining the best of both worlds: https://github.com/mwilliamson/jq.py