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| author | Stephen Dolan <mu@netsoc.tcd.ie> | 2012-12-16 19:46:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Stephen Dolan <mu@netsoc.tcd.ie> | 2012-12-16 19:46:41 +0000 |
| commit | 75421cbfe32ae6428fe08b6ba83f1f7ac0322c33 (patch) | |
| tree | cff235884bdcbb039ec19760ba07859644e2edd3 /docs | |
| parent | b0aa62f2b77b2b97fca3e75030156455381d0df3 (diff) | |
Add the ability to specify input files on the commandline.
See #21.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml b/docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml index 6e8065c6..5acb212c 100644 --- a/docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml +++ b/docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml @@ -33,12 +33,16 @@ manpage_intro: | ## SYNOPSIS - `jq` [<options>...] <filter> + `jq` [<options>...] <filter> [<files>...] `jq` can transform JSON in various ways, by selecting, iterating, reducing and otherwise mangling JSON documents. For instance, running the command `jq 'map(.price) | add'` will take an array of JSON objects as input and return the sum of their "price" fields. + + By default, `jq` reads a stream of JSON objects (whitespace + separated) from `stdin`. One or more <files> may be specified, in + which case `jq` will read input from those instead. The <options> are described in the [INVOKING JQ] section, they mostly concern input and output formatting. The <filter> is written |