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I found this Q/A with the solution to print all the keys in an object:

jq -r 'keys[] as $k | "\($k), \(.[$k] | .ip)"' 

In my case I want to perform the above but on a sub-object:

jq -r '.connections keys[] as $k | "\($k), \(.[$k] | .ip)"'

What is the proper syntax to do this?

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2 Answers 2

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Simply pipe to keys function:

Sample input.json:

{
    "connections": {
        "host1": { "ip": "10.1.2.3" },
        "host2": { "ip": "10.1.2.2" },
        "host3": { "ip": "10.1.18.1" }
    }
}

jq -r '.connections | keys[] as $k | "\($k), \(.[$k] | .ip)"' input.json

The output:

host1, 10.1.2.3
host2, 10.1.2.2
host3, 10.1.18.1
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    keys sorts the keys, so it is worth pointing out that keys_unsorted does not.
    – peak
    Jan 7, 2018 at 13:11
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    @peak, the OP wrote "I found this stackoverflow.com/questions/34226370/… ..." where the accepted answer clearly says "keys produces the key names in sorted order; if you want them in the original order, use keys_unsorted". So the OP is aware about that and have chosen keys consciously. Jan 7, 2018 at 14:23
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    The comment was meant for others coming across this Q&A.
    – peak
    Jan 7, 2018 at 15:06
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A more generic bash function to export vars ( with interpolation ):

#
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# usage example:
# doExportJsonSectionVars cnf/env/dev.env.json '.env.virtual.docker.spark_base'
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
doExportJsonSectionVars(){

   json_file="$1"
   shift 1;
   test -f "$json_file" || echo "the json_file: $json_file does not exist !!! Nothing to do" && exit 1

   section="$1"
   test -z "$section" && echo "the section in doExportJsonSectionVars is empty !!! nothing to do !!!" && exit 1
   shift 1;

   while read -r l ; do
      eval $l ;
   done < <(cat "$json_file"| jq -r "$section"'|keys_unsorted[] as $key|"export \($key)=\(.[$key])"')
}

example data

cat cnf/env/dev.env.json
{
  "env": {
    "ENV_TYPE": "dev",
      "physical": {
        "var_name": "var_value"
      },
      "virtual": {
          "docker": {
            "spark_base": {
                "SPARK_HOME": "/opt/spark"
              , "SPARK_CONF": "$SPARK_HOME/conf"
            }
            , "spark_master": {
              "var_name": "var_value"
            }
            , "spark_worker": {
              "var_name": "var_value"
            }
          }
          , "var_name": "var_value"
      }
  }
}

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