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…all you're doing is trying to grep some deeply nested field, it's way easier with gron, IMHO. [1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by msluyter · 2022-04-26 · in Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq

…CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more - https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq gron: Make JSON greppable - https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron jello: Filter JSON and JSON Lines data with Python syntax - https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello jless:…

comment by luckman212 · 2022-03-21 · in Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON

Try https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by digitalsanctum · 2022-03-08 · in Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files

Another contender is gron which does the same. It's written in golang instead of rust. https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron <pre>$ cat test.json | gron</pre>

comment by aynawn · 2022-02-25 · in Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust)

gron [0] is another interesting JSON processor that follows UNIX philosophy: [0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron "Make JSON greppable!" "gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see…

comment by lr1970 · 2022-01-09 · in FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON

…goal is to promote exploration of a JSON file through common unix tools such as awk and grep. 1: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by 1_player · 2022-01-09 · in FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON

Thank you, sounds very useful for quick queries: https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron

comment by trulyme · 2021-12-05 · in Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app

Don't forget Gron: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by ABraidotti · 2021-11-10 · in JSONiq: JSON Query Language

…processing tools I find helpful in addition to JavaScript include Gron aka "grep for JavaScript" ( https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron ), jq for querying, json_pp for pretty-printing and `bat` for syntax highlighting.

comment by markstos · 2021-11-09 · in JSONiq: JSON Query Language

…json[0].commit.author.email = "mail@tomnomnom.com"; json[0].commit.author.name = "Tom Hudson"; https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by dmos62 · 2021-09-07 · in Htmlq: like jq, but for html

`jtbl` seems nice! I'd add: * https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron - make json greppable * https://sr.ht/~gpanders/ijq/ - interactive jq

comment by asicsp · 2021-08-25 · in An Introduction to JQ

You might prefer gron for this use case: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by seppel · 2021-08-02 · in Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq

…it took the combination of it and gron [1] to really transform my debugging and JSON workflows. 1: https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron

comment by doytch · 2021-08-01 · in Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq

…{ "date": "2016-07-02T10:51:21Z", "email": "mail@tomnomnom.com", "name": "Tom Hudson" } } } ] [1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by agbell · 2021-07-29 · in Command line tools for productive programmers

You're probably thinking of https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron .

comment by lafrenierejm · 2021-04-23 · in A Collection of Modern/Faster/Saner Alternative Unix Commands

…for some edge cases. But for some quick exploratory analysis, it's a tool I like to have handy. [0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron/

comment by michaelmior · 2021-03-25 · in SQLite is not a toy database

…This output provides a lot of context for me to see and understand the differences. [1] gron https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron [2] delta https://github.com/dandavison/delta

comment by rmetzler · 2021-02-27 · in Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc

…that are pretty cumbersome in jq, such as finding a field deeply nested in an optional parent. [1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by heleninboodler · 2020-12-21 · in Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more

The gron tool mentioned by the author is incredibly useful for grepping json. https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by aarchi · 2020-12-18 · in Reverse engineering the Nest home/away API

…The patch was based on the most recent release, since master is currently not functional. 0: https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron 1: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/pull/77

comment by lafrenierejm · 2020-12-03 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

Looks like someone has done so here: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron/issues/77

comment by mikepurvis · 2020-11-06 · in Gron – Make JSON Greppable

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story by capableweb · 2020-11-06 · 91 comments

This is called gron, I prefer it for reading JSON with a lot of nesting. https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by PowerfulWizard · 2020-11-06 · in Show HN: Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem

…json[0].commit.author.email = "mail@tomnomnom.com"; json[0].commit.author.name = "Tom Hudson"; [1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by topher200 · 2020-09-15 · in Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by fold_left · 2020-07-01 · in Mastering Jq: Part 1

…JSON into single lines for use with grep, sed, etc and can recombine back into JSON as well. https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron

comment by benjaminoakes · 2020-06-05 · in The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

…data. jello looks pretty interesting too, but I'm not sure if I agree with python syntax. [0]: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by qqii · 2020-04-22 · in Nushell – A New Type of Shell

Kudos for sharing "gron," I hadn't heard of that tool before and it looks quite useful: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by loeg · 2020-03-19 · in Illustrated Jq Tutorial

I use gron to do this same thing: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron Some options of gron I use often: --stream, which treats the input as "JSON lines" format --ungron, which converts from the flat format back to JSON

comment by oftenwrong · 2020-03-19 · in Illustrated Jq Tutorial

No need to panic! You can still pipe it to gron [0] and recover useable output. [0] https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron

comment by enriquto · 2020-03-17 · in Curl will now output JSON

…workflows like this, I've found it incredibly useful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727665 https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron/

comment by unspecified · 2019-10-08 · in Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON

…https://github.com/dflemstr/rq And for searching JSON: jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ gron: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron Or use in2csv from csvkit or rq to get the JSON over to CSV and go from there.

comment by cosmie · 2019-09-21 · in Show HN: cq – Query CSVs using SQL

Gron -- Make JSON Greppable https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron

comment by bradknowles · 2019-09-02 · in TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files

I recommend "gron" https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron > gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs…

comment by etatoby · 2019-09-01 · in TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files

Use gron. See https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron

comment by bradknowles · 2019-08-01 · in Learn a little jq, Awk and sed

…the Bible first instead isn't the most helpful advice :) But I do appreciate you flagging it! [1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron --- P.S. For those who liked the writing style of this tutorial, you may enjoy these other ones on the IBM…

comment by news_hacker · 2019-06-29 · in Awk by Example

Looks a lot like ye olde gron: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron Here's a Python implementation of gron https://github.com/venthur/python-gron

comment by venthur · 2019-06-22 · in Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files

…so you can pipe json to gron, grep -v to remove some data, then ungron to get it back to json. [0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by avidal · 2019-06-21 · in Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files

…need to deal with JSON in a script. It's a bit simpler than 'jq', both in usage and in capability. https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by oftenwrong · 2019-02-28 · in The hard part in becoming a command line wizard

…new language. With gron I can just wire it up to a bunch of standard line-based utilities. [1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by andrewla · 2019-02-28 · in The hard part in becoming a command line wizard

…= 2.88; json.root.right = []; json.root.right[0] = "a"; json.root.right[1] = "b"; [0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by philsnow · 2018-12-19 · in Comma-Separated Tree

…convert the JSON into a shell-friendly line-oriented format. This makes the rest straightforward. https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by oftenwrong · 2018-12-06 · in Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq

gron, a simple tool to make JSON greppable: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

comment by simon_acca · 2018-05-09 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…it's difficult to justify removing it - you never know whose workflow you might break[3]. [0] - https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron/blob/master/ADVANCED.mkd [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16733361 [2] -…

comment by TomNomNom · 2018-04-02 · in Gron: A command line tool that makes JSON greppable

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story by oftenwrong · 2018-04-01 · 51 comments