Description
I'm frequently passed long shell one-liners that require some visual inspection before running. These days, there's about as much jq in that one-liner as there is bash. I wrote jqfmt to help add line breaks in sensible locations while reading (or writing!) jq.
At time of initial development, I naturally turned to https://github.com/itchyny/gojq expecting to be able to generate and walk a syntax tree—but gojq didn't seem to provide an AST that could be "walked," and it doesn't export its parsing logic to be used in library form. So, I yanked the relevant code out of https://github.com/itchyny/gojq/blob/main/query.go and started from there.
Side note: Ever tried Googling for "jq formatter"? Reading search results is a nightmare since jq itself is, among other things, a formatter.
Getting started
Install
go install -v github.com/noperator/jqfmt/cmd/jqfmt@latest
Usage
𝄢 jqfmt -h Usage of jqfmt: -ar arrays -f string file -o one line -ob objects -op string operators -v verbose
Let's take this line of jq…
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