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ftagmarks(){ jq -r --arg t "$1" '.children[] as $i|if $i.root == "tagsFolder" then ([$i.children[] as $j|{title: ($j.title), urls: [$j.children[].uri]}]) else empty end|.[] as $k|if ($k.title|contains($t)) then $k.urls else empty end|.[]?' "$2"; }
2016-12-24 15:12:04
User: qwertyroot
Functions: as
Tags: firefox bookmarks function json parsing jq
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Get/List firefox bookmarks by tag from json backup

# Usage: ftagmarks TAG BOOKMARKS.JSON

ftagmarks Bash ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarkbackups/bookmarks-*.json

Tag can be partial matching, e.g. input 'Bas' or 'ash' will match 'Bash' tag.

# Exact tag matching:

ftagmark(){ jq -r --arg t "$1" '.children[] as $i|if $i.root == "tagsFolder" then ([$i.children[] as $j|{title: ($j.title), urls: [$j.children[].uri]}]) else empty end|.[] as $k|if $k.title == $t then $k.urls else empty end|.[]?' "$2"; }

Usage: ftagmark TAG BOOKMARKS.JSON

# List all tags:

ftagmarkl(){ jq -r '.children[] as $i | if $i.root == "tagsFolder" then $i.children[].title else empty end' "$1"; }

Usage: ftagmarkl BOOKMARKS.JSON

# Requires: `jq` - must have CLI JSON processor

http://stedolan.github.io/jq

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aws cloudfront list-distributions | jq -r '.DistributionList | .Items | .[] | .Id + " " + .Aliases.Items[]'
2016-09-19 06:36:59
User: hendry
Tags: aws jq awscli
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List cloudfront distributions based on domain

Looking up the id of a CF domain can be painful. Not anymore with this tip.

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curl -s httpbin.org/ip | jq -r .origin
2016-08-11 04:20:48
User: tebeka
Tags: curl json ip address jq
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Get your outgoing IP address
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echo "Gold price is" $(wget https://rate-exchange-1.appspot.com/currency\?from=XAU\&to=USD -q -O - | jq ".rate") "USD"
2015-11-11 14:20:06
User: lordtoran
Functions: echo wget
Tags: wget finance jq
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Get the current gold price

Returns the current price of a troy ounce of gold, in USD. Requires the "jq" JSON parser.

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echo "BTC rate is" $(wget https://api.bitcoinaverage.com/ticker/global/EUR/ -q -O - | jq ".last") "?"
2015-09-28 23:03:59
User: lordtoran
Functions: echo wget
Tags: wget bitcoin jq btc
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Global BTC rate in EUR

Returns the global weighted BTC rate in EUR. Requires the "jq" JSON parser.

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btc() { echo "1 BTC = $(curl -s https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice/$1.json | jq .bpi.\"$1\".rate | tr -d \"\"\") $1"; }
2015-09-19 02:49:30
User: benjabean1
Functions: echo
Tags: curl json bitcoin jq
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Check the current price of Bitcoin (jq version, defines a function)

The only pre-requisite is jq (and curl, obviously).

The other version used grep, but jq is much more suited to JSON parsing than that.

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aws ec2 describe-snapshots --filter 'Name=volume-id,Values=vol-abcd1234' | jq '.[]|max_by(.StartTime)|.SnapshotId'
2014-06-26 20:26:23
User: thatinstant
Tags: aws EC2 jq elb
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Find the most recent snapshot for an AWS EBS volume

Uses the python-based AWS CLI (https://aws.amazon.com/cli/) and the JSON query tool, JQ (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)

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aws ec2 describe-instances --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*]" | jq '.[]|.[]|(if .Tags then (.Tags[]|select(.Key == "Name").Value) else empty end)+", " +.InstanceId'
2014-06-26 20:01:12
User: thatinstant
Tags: aws EC2 jq
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List EC2 servers by tag name and instanceId

Uses the python-based AWS CLI (https://aws.amazon.com/cli/) and the JSON query tool, JQ (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)

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aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId,LaunchTime]' --output text | sort -n -k 2
2014-06-16 21:51:51
User: hakamadare
Functions: sort
Tags: aws jq
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Use AWS CLI and JQ to get a list of instances sorted by launch time

You can do the filtering natively in the aws cli, without using jq (although jq is awesome!)

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aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '.["Reservations"]|.[]|.Instances|.[]|.LaunchTime + " " + .InstanceId' | sort -n
2014-02-03 07:59:47
User: andrewtayloruk
Functions: sort
Tags: aws jq
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Use AWS CLI and JQ to get a list of instances sorted by launch time

Use the AWS CLI tools to generate a list instances, then pipe them to JQ to show only their launch time and instance id. Finally use sort to bring them out in runtime order. Find all those instances you launched months ago and have forgotten about.

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