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Suppress null outputs entirely.

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Section: Filters and Conditions

Drop null values from stream

bash
bash
echo '[1,null,2,null]' | jq '.[] | select(. != null)'
Explanation

Use `empty` or `select()` to suppress unwanted outputs.

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