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| author | Nicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> | 2017-02-22 23:01:39 -0600 |
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| committer | Nicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> | 2017-02-26 16:34:56 -0600 |
| commit | 6bac4ed059966007a6bc0e4a3639aca7d59f3b10 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d8a50fc6be61618ae903ac36a0d72ca56d92355 /docs | |
| parent | a03ae02f4489e35cc874bb529570092414eee729 (diff) | |
Document `stderr`
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml b/docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml index 84675182..cadc6fbd 100644 --- a/docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml +++ b/docs/content/3.manual/manual.yml @@ -2763,11 +2763,13 @@ sections: jq itself. These two builtins, and jq's own reading actions, can be interleaved with each other. - One builtin provides minimal output capabilities, `debug`. - (Recall that a jq program's output values are always output as - JSON texts on `stdout`.) The `debug` builtin can have + Two builtins provide minimal output capabilities, `debug`, and + `stderr`. (Recall that a jq program's output values are always + output as JSON texts on `stdout`.) The `debug` builtin can have application-specific behavior, such as for executables that use - the libjq C API but aren't the jq executable itself. + the libjq C API but aren't the jq executable itself. The `stderr` + builtin outputs its input in raw mode to stder with no additional + decoration, not even a newline. Most jq builtins are referentially transparent, and yield constant and repeatable value streams when applied to constant inputs. @@ -2795,6 +2797,12 @@ sections: `["DEBUG:", <input-value>]` and prints that and a newline on stderr, compactly. This may change in the future. + - title: "`stderr`" + body: | + + Prints its input in raw and compact mode to stderr with no + additional decoration, not even a newline. + - title: "`input_filename`" body: | |