Commands tagged jq (21)

  • Get Your IP Geographic Location with curl and jq


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    curl -s https://ipvigilante.com/$(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/ip) | jq '.data.latitude, .data.longitude, .data.city_name, .data.country_name'
    emphazer · 2019-04-26 09:15:00 29
  • Get the current gold price

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


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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"
    lordtoran · 2015-11-11 14:20:06 13
  • Get a diff of two json arrays

    jq is amazing for manipulating json on the commandline, but the developers have some weird ideas about how to handle shell redirections. This command works around them. Further reading: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1110


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    diff <(jq . -M -S < old.json) <(jq . -M -S < new.json)
    malathion · 2018-10-11 20:59:48 123
  • Display disk partition sizes

    It is the same but more faster real 0m0,007s user 0m0,011s sys 0m0,000s with my solution real 0m0,038s user 0m0,044s sys 0m0,000s with your solution :) Show Sample Output


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    lsblk | grep -v part | awk '{print $1 "\t" $4}'
    gecco · 2022-01-11 13:31:04 136
  • 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. Show Sample Output


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    aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '.["Reservations"]|.[]|.Instances|.[]|.LaunchTime + " " + .InstanceId' | sort -n
    andrewtayloruk · 2014-02-03 07:59:47 16
  • 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!) Show Sample Output


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    aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId,LaunchTime]' --output text | sort -n -k 2
    hakamadare · 2014-06-16 21:51:51 4
  • 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-snapshots --filter 'Name=volume-id,Values=vol-abcd1234' | jq '.[]|max_by(.StartTime)|.SnapshotId'
    thatinstant · 2014-06-26 20:26:23 5
  • Get your outgoing IP address


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    curl -s httpbin.org/ip | jq -r .origin
    tebeka · 2016-08-11 04:20:48 11
  • Convert tab separate file (TSV) to JSON with jq

    With this command you can convert a tab separate file (TSV) into a JSON file with jq. For example, this input.tsv i-0b9adca882e5e6326 172.16.0.188 i-088dd69e5c3624888 172.16.0.102 i-0e70eac180537d4aa 172.16.0.85 will produce the showed output. Show Sample Output


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    cat input.tsv | jq --raw-input --slurp 'split("\n") | map(split("\t")) | .[0:-1] | map( { "id": .[0], "ip": .[1] } )'
    nordri · 2019-10-01 10:52:35 145
  • Display disk partition sizes

    Use lsbk (list block) and jq (to manipulate a JSON on the command line) to display partition information: Show Sample Output


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    lsblk --json | jq -c '.blockdevices[]|[.name,.size]'
    mikhail · 2021-12-22 22:31:07 151
  • AWS Route53 hosted zone export

    Frustrated with the manual domain migration process AWS has, I unsuccessfully tried to install cli53, route53-transfer. I instead wrote this oneliner to ease the export (which is not supported via the AWS console ATM). The output can be easily pasted into the "Import Hosted Zone" dialog in Route53. SOA/NS records are excluded since they cannot be automatically imported. Show Sample Output


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    echo -e "\$ORIGIN\tumccr.org.\n\$TTL\t1h\n" && aws route53 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id Z1EEXAMPLE9SF3 | jq -r '.ResourceRecordSets[] | [.Name, .Type, .ResourceRecords[0].Value] | join("\t")' - | grep -vE "NS|SOA"
    brainstorm · 2018-06-15 01:19:21 58
  • 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[*]" | jq '.[]|.[]|(if .Tags then (.Tags[]|select(.Key == "Name").Value) else empty end)+", " +.InstanceId'
    thatinstant · 2014-06-26 20:01:12 4
  • Sample logstash events on a redis queue

    If you have a load of logstash events in a redis queue (here named "logstash"), here's a fast way to examine the type and message of the event.


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    for i in {0..100}; do redis-cli LINDEX logstash ${i} | jq .type,.message; done
    crccheck · 2015-05-22 16:01:02 6
  • Global BTC rate in EUR

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


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    echo "BTC rate is" $(wget https://api.bitcoinaverage.com/ticker/global/EUR/ -q -O - | jq ".last") "?"
    lordtoran · 2015-09-28 23:03:59 9
  • Convert json files to tsv text blob

    Grabs the first JSON file in the directory, reads its keys, prints TSV, then prints all the json files' values as TSV. Nested objects appear as json. Unhappy times if your json has literal tabs in it. Show Sample Output


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    jq -r 'keys | join("\t")' $(ls -f *.json | head -1) && jq -Sr 'to_entries | [ .[] | .value | tostring ] | join("\t")' *.json
    drjeats · 2016-04-08 23:30:30 8
  • List cloudfront distributions based on domain

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


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    aws cloudfront list-distributions | jq -r '.DistributionList | .Items | .[] | .Id + " " + .Aliases.Items[]'
    hendry · 2016-09-19 06:36:59 10
  • 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 Show Sample Output


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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"; }
    qwertyroot · 2016-12-24 15:12:04 9
  • Estimate an economic bitcoin-cli fee and display as sat/B with date time stamp

    Compactly display a bitcoin-cli fee estimate in satoshis/Byte, sat/B, date time stamp. Change the 6 to the desired number of confirmations. Display in btc/KB unit of measure: printf %g "$(bccli estimatesmartfee 6 "ECONOMICAL" | jq .feerate)";printf " btc/KB estimated feerate for 6 confirmations\nMultiply by 100,000 to get sat/B\n"; Two settings for estimate mode are "ECONOMICAL". "CONSERVATIVE" is the same as "UNSET" # jq is a json filter. sudo apt-get install jq Show Sample Output


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    printf %g "$(bitcoin-cli estimatesmartfee 6 "ECONOMICAL" | jq .feerate*100000)";printf " sat/B estimated feerate for 6 confirmations as of $(date +%c)\nDivide by 100,000 to get btc/KB\n"
    deinerson1 · 2018-06-20 13:40:32 58
  • Use was ec2 describe instances to retrieve IAM roles for specific ec2 tag to css list

    This allows you to get all instance profiles (roles) for a given set of tags. Lists it in CSV Show Sample Output


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    aws ec2 describe-instances --region us-east-1 --filters "Name=tag:YourTag,Values=YourValue" | jq '.["Reservations"]|.[]|.Instances|.[]|.IamInstanceProfile.Arn + "," +.InstanceId'
    symgryph · 2019-04-15 16:33:41 23
  • Find failures with journalctl

    Sometimes things break. You can find the most recent errors using a combination of journalctl, along with the classic tools sort and uniq Show Sample Output


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    journalctl --no-pager --since today --grep 'fail|error|fatal' --output json | jq '._EXE' | sort | uniq -c | sort --numeric --reverse --key 1
    mikhail · 2021-12-22 22:27:17 126
  • 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. Show Sample Output


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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"; }
    benjabean1 · 2015-09-19 02:49:30 8

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