JSON Query command for filtering data out of a JSON Object, file, or URL. jq is a query language built specifically for interacting with JSON type data. More information can be found at https://jmespath.org/ as well as an online version to test your query Pass or pipe the text to process or a filename . Run query against file {code:bash} jq myjsonfile.json a.b.c.d {code} Run query against URL {code:bash} jq "https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/jokes/ten" [].join('.....',[setup,punchline]) {code} Or against JSON literal {code:bash} jq '{"a": {"b": {"c": {"d": "value"}}}}' a.b.c.d {code} Or piped-in data {code:bash} package list --json | jq name {code} You can do a basic search for keys in JSON wiht a dot-delimited list of key names. Consider this sample JSON: {code:bash} {"foo":{"bar":{"baz":"correct"}}} {code} The following search filters return the noted results. Note that ".bar" searches in nested structs for a match. {code:bash} foo -> {"bar":{"baz":"correct"}} foo.bar -> {"baz":"correct"} .bar -> {"baz":"correct"} {code} You can even create a new object out of your filter results using the values from the matched keys. {code:bash} jq {inner:{foo:'apples',bar:true}} inner.{newKey:foo,bar:bar} { "newKey":"apples", "bar":true } {code} You can filter values. Here we take the arary inside "foo" and filter only the objects where the "age" is greater thgan 25 Note backticks are used for a litearl value, but we need to escape them in our string so the shell doesn't try to evaluate them. {code:bash} jq '{"foo":[{"age":20},{"age":25},{"age":30}]}' 'foo[?age > \`25\`]' [ { "age":30 } ] {code} . Check the docs for tons more functionality including - Filter boolean functions - Math functions - Sort function: - Conversion functions