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This wiki provides supplementary documentation about jq.

If you want to learn to use jq, please head to the jq home page. There you will find an overview, a tutorial, and a manual. Here you will find supplementary documentation, notably the jq Language Description, which provides a more technical introduction to jq than the manual.

The documentation on this wiki is currently structured as the Sidebar menu (shown at the bottom in small screens) presents. Newcomers may find the following especially helpful:

• FAQ
• Install jq
• jq Language Description
• jq Cookbook
• Advanced Topics
• jq Internals
• Awesome jq - list of awesome jq tools and resources↗

Users should also peruse the Pitfalls page.

As a rule, the documentation here follows the convention that:

• official releases are referred to in the m.n format (e.g. 1.3, 1.4);
• a version number such as 1.4+ means a (sufficiently recent) version after 1.4.

This wiki is currently open for editing by anyone with a GitHub login. Welcome!