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The mktime/0 function failed for 1969-12-31T23:59:59Z with "invalid gmtime representation", because its result -1 is also the failure value of timegm(), and for 1969-12-31T23:59:58Z with "mktime not supported on this platform", because of a leftover check for -2. Tell a failure apart from the valid result -1 by tm_wday, which is set to -1 before the conversion and overwritten only on success, and remove the check for -2. Now `-2, -1 | gmtime | mktime` round-trip to -2 and -1, as do normalized inputs such as [1970,0,0,23,59,59,0,0], which gives -1. Inputs that the platform rejects, such as years before 1900 on macOS, still fail with "invalid gmtime representation".
jq
jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor akin to sed,awk,grep, and friends for JSON data. It's written in portable C and has zero runtime dependencies, allowing you to easily slice, filter, map, and transform structured data.
Documentation
- Official Documentation: jqlang.org
- Try jq Online: play.jqlang.org
Installation
Prebuilt Binaries
Download the latest releases from the GitHub release page.
The platform-specific assets are standalone executables, not archives. On macOS and Linux,
rename the downloaded file to jq and make it executable with chmod +x jq.
Docker Image
Pull the jq image to start quickly with Docker.
Run with Docker
Example: Extracting the version from a package.json file
docker run --rm -i ghcr.io/jqlang/jq:latest < package.json '.version'
Example: Extracting the version from a package.json file with a mounted volume
docker run --rm -i -v "$PWD:$PWD" -w "$PWD" ghcr.io/jqlang/jq:latest '.version' package.json
Building from source
Dependencies
- libtool
- make
- automake
- autoconf
Instructions
git submodule update --init # if building from git to get oniguruma
autoreconf -i # if building from git
./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin
make clean # if upgrading from a version previously built from source
make -j8
make check
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig # on Linux, if jq cannot find libjq.so
Build a statically linked version:
make clean
make LDFLAGS=-all-static
If you're not using the latest git version but instead building a released tarball (available on the release page), skip the autoreconf step, and flex or bison won't be needed.
Cross-Compilation
For details on cross-compilation, check out the GitHub Actions file and the cross-compilation wiki page.
Community & Support
- Questions & Help: Stack Overflow (jq tag)
- Chat & Community: Join us on Discord
- Wiki & Advanced Topics: Explore the Wiki
License
jq is released under the MIT License. jq's documentation is
licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY 3.0.
jq uses parts of the open source C library "decNumber", which is distributed
under ICU License