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Handling JSON Lines Format

JSON Lines text format, also called newline-delimited JSON, is a convenient format for storing structured data that may be processed one record at a time.

Files in JSON Lines format usually carry the extension .jsonl.

Official Site for JSON Lines Format: http://jsonlines.org/

jq Tool

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Setup

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/

  • CentOS: yum install -y jq
  • Ubuntu: apt install -y jq
  • OS X (Homebrew): brew install jq

Examples

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