Jq: Add option to not print records where the query would result in "null"

Created on 22 Oct 2012  ·  3Comments  ·  Source: stedolan/jq

Throwing "grep -v null" on the end of the command is easy enough, but in many (most?) situations where i'm doing a query on a field name, I don't want records where the query would result in a non-match on the record.

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Alternately:
jq '.foo // empty

picture seh on 6 Nov 2015
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jq 'foo | select(. == null | not)'

should do the trick

stedolan picture stedolan on 22 Oct 2012
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Hmm, it seems like it would be simpler to use a general command line option for a wider, more common use case of not wanting any nulls in output.

geoffeg picture geoffeg on 22 Oct 2012

Alternately:
jq '.foo // empty

seh picture seh on 6 Nov 2015
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