• Generate array always for specified xml element "aitem" even with single set .
• It must open square braces as an array like aitem[{}]
• Please also specify expression to write in /.jq file as a def, to maintain many single set items to be an array.

<root>
    <aitem>
        <name>abc</name>
        <value>123</value>
    </aitem>
    <bitem>
        <name>bbbb</name>
        <value>2222</value>
    </bitem>
    <bitem>
        <name>BB</name>
        <value>22</value>
    </bitem>
</root>

Normal Output aitem{} bitem[{}{}]

 {
  "root": {
    "aitem": {
      "name": "abc",
      "value": "123"
    },
    "bitem": [
      {
        "name": "bbbb",
        "value": "2222"
      },
      {
        "name": "BB",
        "value": "22"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Expected Output , aitem[{}] bitem[{}{}] even its single set aitem must become array

{
  "root": {
    "aitem": [
    {
      "name": "abc",
      "value": "123"
    }
    ],
    "bitem": [
      {
        "name": "bbbb",
        "value": "2222"
      },
      {
        "name": "BB",
        "value": "22"
      }
    ]
  }
 }

Not sure if this is possible.

  "questions": [
    {
      "season": 1,
      "episode": 1,
      "question": "what is the name of the character played by Michael Richards?"
    }
  ],
  "episodes": [
    {
      "season": 1,
      "episode": 1,
      "title": "The Seinfeld Chronicles"
    },
    {
      "season": 1,
      "episode": 2,
      "title": "The Stake Out"
    }
  ]

looking to insert 2nd array title, if it matches the season and episode of 1st array

so it would add "title": "The Seinfeld Chronicles" to the questions array for season1 and episode1.

Describe the bug When selecting subfields (e.g. .foo.bar), using the generic notation (e.g. .["foo"].["bar"]) throws a syntax error.

To Reproduce Given the input (sample.json):

{
  "title": "Title 1",
  "media:content": {
    "media:credits": "media:content.media:credits 1"
  }
}

I want to pull .media-content.media:credits to the top level and relabel the field to "credits" like this:

$ cat sample.json | jq '{title, credits: .["media:content"].["media:credits"]}'

Expected output

{
  "title": "Title 1",
  "credits": "media:content.media:credits 1"
}

Actual output

jq: error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting FORMAT or QQSTRING_START (Unix shell quoting issues?) at <top-level>, line 1:
{title, credits: .["media:content"].["media:credits"]}
jq: 1 compile error

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS and Version: macOS Ventura 13.1
• jq version: 1.6

Additional context If the keys can be used in identifier-like syntax, like this, then it works: (sample2.json)

{
  "title": "Title 1",
  "content": {
    "credits": "content.credits 1",
  },
}

$ cat sample2.json | jq '{title, credits: .content.credits}'

{
  "title": "Title 1",
  "credits": "content.credits 1"
}

But even then , it still doesn't work with the generic quoted syntax chained after the first selector

$ cat sample2.json | jq '{title, credits: .["content"].["credits"]}'  # Error
$ cat sample2.json | jq '{title, credits: .content.["credits"]}'      # Error
$ cat sample2.json | jq '{title, credits: .["content"].credits}'      # Works

Addendum: While writing this, I did finally discover a workaround using the pipe operator:

$ cat sample2.json | jq '{title, credits: .["content"] | .["credits"]}'.            # Works
$ cat sample.json | jq '{title, credits: .["media:content"] | .["media:credits"]}'. # Works

But I'm filing the bug report anyways because, according to the docs, .foo.bar should be equivalent to .["foo"].["bar"]. (and likewise, .["foo"].["bar"] should be equivalent to .["foo'] | .["bar"]

Thanks for the tool!

On your download page https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/, the name of the MacOS binary for v1.6 is "jq-osx-amd64". Apple has never used AMD CPUs, so what architecture is this binary actually for? If it really is for Macs, you should change it's misleading name.

jq issues "Unknow option" when trying to pass either --nul-output or --binary to the executable.

` C:>jq --version jq-1.6

C:>jq --binary /cygdrive/c/Programs/cygwin64/bin/jq: Unknown option --binary Use /cygdrive/c/Programs/cygwin64/bin/jq --help for help with command-line options, or see the jq manpage, or online docs at https://stedolan.github.io/jq

C:>jq --nul-output /cygdrive/c/Programs/cygwin64/bin/jq: Unknown option --nul-output Use /cygdrive/c/Programs/cygwin64/bin/jq --help for help with command-line options, or see the jq manpage, or online docs at https://stedolan.github.io/jq

C:>jq-win --version jq-1.6

C:>jq-win --binary C:\Software\utils\jq-win.exe: Unknown option --binary Use C:\Software\utils\jq-win.exe --help for help with command-line options, or see the jq manpage, or online docs at https://stedolan.github.io/jq

C:>jq-win --nul-output C:\Software\utils\jq-win.exe: Unknown option --nul-output Use C:\Software\utils\jq-win.exe --help for help with command-line options, or see the jq manpage, or online docs at https://stedolan.github.io/jq `

Describe the bug For some json files there is strange behavior for id field. I see the same value in result view, but in input json file the id value are distinct. Here is the result what I see https://ibb.co/7GsQn2g . Original json is below. Result:

$ cat test_failure.json | jq
{
  "sections": [
    {
      "items": [
        {
          "id": 50000000014435120,
          "price": {
            "full": 3450
          }
        },
        {
          "id": 50000000014435120,
          "price": {
            "full": 3450
          }
        },
        {
          "id": 50000000014435120,
          "price": {
            "full": 3450
          }
        },
        {
          "id": 50000000014435120,
          "price": {
            "full": 3450
          }
        }
      ],
      "name": "cancelled"
    }
  ]
}

To Reproduce json: { "sections": [ { "items": [ { "id": 50000000014435121, "price": { "full": 3450 } }, { "id": 50000000014435122, "price": { "full": 3450 } }, { "id": 50000000014435123, "price": { "full": 3450 } }, { "id": 50000000014435124, "price": { "full": 3450 } } ], "name": "cancelled" } ] }

command: cat test_failure.json | jq

Expected behavior all id-s are different as in raw json.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Ubuntu 18.04
• jq-1.5-1-a5b5cbe

Additional context I see this bug also in Firefox and Google Chrome. I think the use this library for preview of json.