several snippets of useful jq knowledge

Here are some links that helped me to figure out how to take multiple JSON files (that I am going to want to generate from jrnl) and combine them. Because of that, I also needed to make sure that I could remove duplicate (time …

How to export specific data from jrnl to jq md format

#### this needs to be run in cmd-grid to work as intended
md -v jqmdraw -contains "RWS-5760"

#### the actual jrnl command would need to be something like the following
#### with the assumption that you have the other files as well …

Here is the json to text conversion, that was part of the view jrnl project, but I couldn't get working for some reason when I tried it.

Anyway, had some time today and decided that I should try it, as it would be very helpful to know how to do …

It has some good stuff. I ran across it as I was looking at viewjrnl, a different viewer for jrnl (it doesn't work like it should, or I'd be writing about it instead). Anyway, the main tool it used was jq.

jq processor:

jq is like sed for JSON data …