README.md

Sane jq prelude library

JQ prelude library. It implements only functions for which their buildin alternative behaves badly.

Usage

Just put prelude.jq file in ~/.jq at your users home (the user which runs jq). And in your jq code just include or import the file.

import "prelude" as Prelude;

Prelude::lt(7, 10)  # => true
Prelude::gt("7", 7) # => yields error (while standard jq "7" > 7 would return true, sic!)

# or just 

include "prelude";

lt(7, 10)     # => true
gt("a", "b")  # => false

Reason

jq is a wonderful tool for JSON manipulation from Shell scripts, but some of standard functions or operators behave in a little irrational way.

to be continued