I'd like to call out one of my favorite pieces of software from the past 10 years: VisiData [1] has completely changed the way I do ad-hoc data processing, and is now my go-to for pretty much all use cases that I previously used spreadsheets for, and about half of those I previously used databases for. It's a TUI application, not strictly CLI, but scriptable, and I figure anyone building pipelines using tools like... - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

- http://visidata.org/ Also there is a great introduction:. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Jello let’s you use python syntax with dot notation without the stdin/stdout/json.loads boilerplate. https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

A couple more alternatives: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Yep, you can create a filter in jq to do that. Alternatively, if you prefer Python syntax you could try jello, which works like jq but is really Python under the hood. (I am also the author of jello). Source: about 1 year ago

Hi there - I'm the author of `jc`. I also created `jello`[0], which works just like `jq` but uses python syntax. I find `jq` is great for many things but sometimes more complex operations are easier for me to grok in python. [0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I'm no expert in any of these tools, but here are some yamlpath and jello examples to match:. Source: almost 2 years ago