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Aggregate values manually with `reduce`.

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Section: Variables, Reduce, and Advanced Transformations

Reduce array to sum

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echo '[1,2,3,4]' | jq 'reduce .[] as $n (0; . + $n)'
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`reduce` is powerful for custom aggregations.

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