Annotate output with the source file name.
Section: Files, Slurp, and Streams
Include filename in results
bash
bash
jq '{file: input_filename, value: .}' data.jsonExplanation
Useful when processing many input files together.
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Slurp inputs into one array
Read all JSON inputs and wrap them into an array.
Read raw lines as strings
Treat input as plain text lines instead of JSON.
Read whole raw file as one string
Slurp plain text into one string value.
Convert JSON lines into array
Turn multiple JSON documents into a single array.
Use streaming parser
Process large JSON incrementally as path/value events.
Pretty-print JSON from stdin
Format JSON read from stdin with default pretty output.