LornaJane

Wrangling some document conversion the other day, I ended up in a situation where I had the JSON I needed, but in a completely unreadable format. Luckily, this problem is very easily fixable …. when you know how. So today’s post is a quick recap on how I did that using jq, a very handy command-line tool for working with JSON. For the impatient, here’s the command:

cat posts.json | jq "." > better.json

In this post we’ll look at the data I started with and what the different bits of the command to do help. Continue reading →