Sort by numeric field jq

Get 5 most recent events sorted by timestamp descending

jq 'sort_by(.timestamp) | reverse | .[0:5]' events.json

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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 Pretty print JSON cat data.json | jq '.' Filter by field cat data.json | jq '.items[] | select(.status == "Running")'