Nicolas Williams
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To import a module now use:
# Import module.jq file:
import "relative/path/to/module" as foo;
# Use the module's defs as foo::<def-name>
To import a JSON file:
# Read file.json:
import "relative/path/to/file" as $foo;
#
# Use as $foo::foo
Using `-L` now drops the builtin library path and appends the requested
path to the empty array (or the result of an earlier `-L`).
Support for the `$JQ_LIBRARY_PATH` environment variable has been
removed.
jq
jq is a command-line JSON processor.
If you want to learn to use jq, read the documentation at http://stedolan.github.io/jq. This documentation is generated from the docs/ folder of this repository. You can also try it online at jqplay.org.
If you want to hack on jq, feel free, but be warned that its internals are not well-documented at the moment. Bring a hard hat and a shovel. Also, read the wiki: http://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki
If you're building directly from the latest git, you'll need flex, bison, libtool, make, autoconf and libonig installed. To build, run:
autoreconf -i
./configure
make -j8
make check
After make finishes, you'll be able to use ./jq. You can also
install it using:
sudo make install
If you're not using the latest git version but instead building a
released tarball (available on the website), then you won't need to
run autoreconf (and shouldn't), and you won't need flex or bison.
To cross-compile for OS X and Windows, see docs/Rakefile's build task and scripts/crosscompile. You'll need a cross-compilation environment, such as Mingw for cross-compiling for Windows.