jq == jq is a command-line JSON processor. If you want to learn to use jq, read the documentation at [http://stedolan.github.io/jq](http://stedolan.github.io/jq). This documentation is generated from the docs/ folder of this repository. If you want to hack on jq, feel free, but be warned that its internals are not well-documented at the moment. Bring a hard hat and a shovel. Also, read the wiki: http://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki If you're building directly from the latest git, you'll need flex and bison installed. To build, run: autoreconf ./configure make After make finishes, you'll be able to use `./jq`. You can also install it using: sudo make install If you're not using the latest git version but instead building a released tarball (available on the website), then you won't need to run `autoreconf` (and shouldn't), and you won't need flex or bison.