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The chances are that if you are a modern developer or if you're starting out, you probably don't know what `jq` is, and that's why I'm writing this post. It won't take long to explain what `jq` is, so let's just get that out of the way.

            

            
            

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`jq` could be labeled a command line tool, but in truth it‘s a very “high-level lexically scoped functional programming language” (at least according to Wikipedia) that’s has been around for over a decade. The whole thing is based around JSON and helping you manipulate it in the terminal quickly, which may seem dull or not very useful to the untrained, but let me **show you** why this goes so hard.