--version | Output the jq version and exit with zero |
--seq | Use the application/json-seq MIME type scheme for separating JSON texts in jq's input and output |
--stream | Parse the input in streaming fashion, outputting arrays of path and leaf values |
--slurp, -s | Instead of running the filter for each JSON object in the input, read the entire input stream into a large array and run the filter just once |
--raw-input, -R | Don't parse the input as JSON. Instead, each line of text is passed to the filter as a string |
--null-input, -n | Don't read any input at all! Instead, the filter is run once using null as the input |
--compact-output, -c | By default, jq pretty-prints JSON output. Using this option will result in more compact output by instead putting each JSON object on a single line |
--tab | Use a tab for each indentation level instead of two spaces |
--indent <n> | Use the given number of spaces for indentation |
--color-output, -C | By default, jq outputs colored JSON if writing to a terminal. You can force it to produce color even if writing to a pipe or a file using -C |
--monochrome-output, -M | Disable color |
--ascii-output, -a | Jq usually outputs non-ASCII Unicode codepoints as UTF-8, even if the input specified them as escape sequences |
--unbuffered | Flush the output after each JSON object is printed |
--sort-keys, -S | Output the fields of each object with the keys in sorted orde |
--raw-output, -r | If the filter's result is a string then it will be written directly to standard output rather than being formatted as a JSON string with quotes |
--join-output, -j | Like -r but jq won't print a newline after each output |
-f, --from-file <filename> | Read filter from the file rather than from a command line |
-L <directory> | Prepend directory to the search list for modules |
-e, --exit-status | Sets the exit status of jq to 0 if the last output values was neither false nor null, 1 if the last output value was either false or null, or 4 if no valid result was ever produced |
--arg <name> <value> | This option passes a value to the jq program as a predefined variable |
--argjson <name> <JSON-text> | This option passes a JSON-encoded value to the jq program as a predefined variable |
--slurpfile <variable name> <filename> | This option reads all the JSON texts in the named file and binds an array of the parsed JSON values to the given global variable |
--rawfile <variable name> <filename> | This option reads in the named file and binds its contents to the given global variable |
--args | Remaining arguments are positional string arguments. These are available to the jq program as $ARGS.positional[] |
--jsonargs | Remaining arguments are positional JSON text arguments. These are available to the jq program as $ARGS.positional[] |
--run-tests [filename] | Runs the tests in the given file or standard input. This must be the last option given and does not honor all preceding options |