A multi-format frontend to jq supporting pretty-printing and syntax highlighting. Whether you need to process JSON, YAML or TOML pipe it into nuq and be done with it.
Based on some recent discussion at work I decided that an other option to process YAML is required. 😉
To my knowledge there are two common options for that:
- yq, which uses Golang and has its interpreter with differs from jq's interpreter.
- yq, which uses python to convert YAML to JSON and shells out to jq after. Therefore it is slower than native implementations.
nuq should have decent speed and can execute all programs accepted by jq due to calling libjq directly. To be fair nuq has to parse JSON input streams containing multiple documents to split them before they can be handed off to libjq, so a straight jq should be faster.
A multi-format frontend for jq
Usage: nuq [OPTIONS] <PROGRAM> [FILES]...
Arguments:
<PROGRAM> Jq program to execute
[FILES]... Input files, stdin if omitted
Options:
-i, --input-format <INPUT_FORMAT>
Input format, will be guessed by extension or content [possible values: json, yaml, ron, toml]
-o, --output-format <OUTPUT_FORMAT>
Output format, if omitted will return the input format. Toml output may require reordering the input [possible values: json, yaml, ron, toml]
-r, --raw
If jq outputs a JSON string only output contained plain text. This post-processes the jq output, so it may not behave the same as "jq -r"
--slurp
Concatenate all input files into a JSON array before processing it with jq
-c, --color <COLOR>
Enables or disables colored output. By default coloring is enabled when writing to a tty [possible values: true, false]
-p, --pretty
Pretty-prints the output, if the serializer supports that
Converts the input using serde to JSON, runs it through jq with jq-rs, which uses libjq (no shell-out) and transform it to the output format with serde again.
Techically support for all formats supported by serde can be implemented.