What is Jq ?
- Jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. With Jq, we can slice, filter and map data in the same way as sed, awk and grep commands in Linux OS.
Download and install Jq
- Before installing Jq, we first need to download Jq from its official site
- Now head over to any drive(preferably your system drive or where you like to keep your command line programes).
- Create a new Folder & name it as you want.
- Now copy or move the Jq executable you downloaded earlier to this newly created folder.
- Being inside the folder, click on the address bar and copy the location of the folder.
- Open Run and type in sysdm.cpl, hit Enter.
- Click on Advanced -> Environmental Variables
- Under System Variables, location path and click Edit.
- Add a semicolon if there is not already and then Paste the location of the folder you copied few moments ago and click OK