Print strings without quotes

[phihag]

When I print strings, they are always surrounded with quotes:

$ echo '{"search":"jq!"}' | jq '@uri "http://www.google.com/search?q=\(.search)"'
"http://www.google.com/search?q=jq!"

(This is with jq 18e828f ). I'd like to feed this output into a program that expects URLs to be newline-separated and verbatim. How can I get the output without quotes, i.e.

http://www.google.com/search?q=jq!

[stedolan]

jq -r (or jq --raw-output)

[phihag]

Thanks, no idea why I've missed that in the manpage. By the way, is there any reason why jq --help doesn't list the options, or is this simply a missing feature?

[stedolan]

Missing feature. jq --help needs a rewrite, it should have a couple of useful examples. I don't think a list of options would be the right thing, but what's there at the moment isn't terribly useful.

[socketpair]

Instead of this, someone should implement jq 'xxxxxx | to_raw_string'

[k001]

Why is referenced to Elasticsearch this one @wgrzelak ?

[wgrzelak]

I have used this topic as an example of simplifying an output of jq command :)

[dotnetchris]

Thank you @stedolan

[userException]

jq -r (or jq --raw-output)

I am using fastlane to do some dynamic changes to my iOS app's property list file. The sybtax goes like this:

display_name: sh("jq -r .app_name ../billerConfig.json")

• display_name is the property of fastlane, which changes the name of my app.
• sh: signifies that we are trying to run a shell script in fastlane
• Rest of the command is understandable

Now when I see my project, I see there is a huge white space and then next line inserted, at the end of the app name. I don't think this is the issue with jq but just asking here, if it could be ?

[smac89]

@userException See if this helps:

#1735 (comment)

[userException]

Using "chomp" worked for me: sh("jq -r '.appName' ../billerConfig.json").chomp

[vintnes]

@celesteking here's a fun fact: over 300 people subscribe to this entire issue board and just received that image in their work emails.

Another fun fact: many people are working remotely and regularly sharing their screens.

[celesteking]

What's done is done. I really like jq, just wanted to share my delightment with the usage of this tool. And it's not about the tool itself, absolutely not, but about the thorough documentation and the community. I've never had a problem looking up the usage examples and finding the right answer on google (either leading here, to issues section, or on SO).

Pressing the "like" button won't "subscribe" you to the issue, so it narrows down to just 9 ppl ;)

[wtlangford]

Pressing the "like" button won't "subscribe" you to the issue, so it narrows down to just 9 ppl ;)

I see 317 watchers of the repo, but regardless of the number, it's still not appropriate. I've removed the image.

[4thel00z]

@socketpair
you can just use
jq <whatever> | cut -d '"' -f 2

[AQS-DTheuke]

If you have an array that you want to output as plain string you have to use:

jq '.[]' -r

or

jq 'map(.textPayload) | .[]' -r