I'm working with JQ and I absolutely love it so far. I'm running into an issue I've yet to find a solution to anywhere else, though, and wanted to see if the community had a way to do this.
Let's presume we have a JSON file that looks like so:
{"author": "Gary", "text": "Blah"}
{"author": "Larry", "text": "More Blah"}
{"author": "Jerry", "text": "Yet more Blah"}
{"author": "Barry", "text": "Even more Blah"}
{"author": "Teri", "text": "Text on text on text"}
{"author": "Bob", "text": "Another thing to say"}
Now, we want to select rows where the value of author
is equal to either "Gary" OR "Larry", but no other case. In reality, I have several thousand names I'm checking against, so simply stating the direct or conditional (e.g. cat blah.json | jq -r 'select(.author == "Gary" or .author == "Larry")'
) isn't sufficient. I'm trying to do this via the inside
function like so but get an error dialog:
cat blah.json | jq -r 'select(.author | inside(["Gary", "Larry"]))'
jq: error (at <stdin>:1): array (["Gary","La...) and string ("Gary") cannot have their containment checked
What would be the best method for doing something like this?
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