JSONPathCLI
v0.1.1
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A cli program for running JSONPath queries. Wrapper of s3u/JSONPath
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#JSONPathCLI
A cli program wrapping JSONPath
##Installation
npm install JSONPathCLI -g
##Usage
Accepts a jsonpath query as a parameter, and an optional filename to operate on
jsonpath $..* albums.json
If no file is provided it acts on stdin
cat albums.json | jsonpath $..*
Use the -c
option to display a jsonpath cheatsheet
jsonpath -c
##Output
If the results are of a primitive type (string, number, boolean), they are output separated by a newline.
$ jsonpath $..author sample.json
Nigel Rees
Evelyn Waugh
Herman Melville
J. R. R. Tolkien
$ jsonpath $..price sample.json
8.95
12.99
8.99
22.99
19.95
If the results are javascript objects, or if the -j
option is used to force json output, then the results are output as colorised json (using util.inspect)
$ jsonpath $..author sample.json -j
[ 'Nigel Rees',
'Evelyn Waugh',
'Herman Melville',
'J. R. R. Tolkien' ]
$ jsonpath $..book[2:] sample.json
[ { category: 'fiction',
author: 'Herman Melville',
title: 'Moby Dick',
isbn: '0-553-21311-3',
price: 8.99 },
{ category: 'fiction',
author: 'J. R. R. Tolkien',
title: 'The Lord of the Rings',
isbn: '0-395-19395-8',
price: 22.99 } ]
##LICENSE
MIT