Merge two objects jq

Deep merge two JSON objects (right wins on conflicts)

jq -s '.[0] * .[1]' base.json override.json

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Extract nested value safely jq '.config?.database?.host // "localhost"' config.json Sort by numeric field jq 'sort_by(.timestamp) | reverse | .[0:5]' events.json Convert JSON to CSV jq -r '.[] | [.id, .name, .status] | @csv' data.json Add field to every element jq '[.[] | . + {"env": "prod"}]' items.json Walk and transform all strings jq 'walk(if type == "string" then ascii_downcase else . end)' data.json