How to run jq from gitbash in windows?

Question

I have gitbash in Windows. I am trying to run jq but its giving me error.

$ ./jq-win64.exe  jq  parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 2, column 0 

Intention: I want to use jq to parse json.

Answer 1

Using jq-win64.exe from github.com/stedolan/jq/releases, I get

vonc@voncav MINGW64 /d/prgs/dl $ ./jq-win64.exe --version jq-1.6  vonc@voncav MINGW64 /d/prgs/dl $ echo '{"foo": 0}' | ./jq-win64.exe . {   "foo": 0 } 

So it does work, but it then depends on the json document you are parsing with it.
If that json document is not well-formed, that would generate the error you see.

In your bash session, you can define (or add to your ~/.bashrc) an alias:

alias jq=/path/to/jq-win64.exe 

That way, you don't need to use ./jq, but directly jq.

$ echo '{"foo": 0}' | jq 

In my case:

vonc@voncav:/$ alias jq=/mnt/d/dwnl/jq-win64.exe vonc@voncav:/$ echo '{"foo": 0}' | jq {   "foo": 0 }