How to remove double-quotes in jq output for parsing json files in bash?

Question

I'm using jq to parse a JSON file as shown here. However, the results for string values contain the "double-quotes" as expected, as shown below:

$ cat json.txt | jq '.name' "Google" 

How can I pipe this into another command to remove the ""? so I get

$ cat json.txt | jq '.name' | some_other_command Google 

What some_other_command can I use?

Answer 1

Use the -r (or --raw-output) option to emit raw strings as output:

jq -r '.name' <json.txt