Use jq to convert json array to jsonl format

Question

I have json like this:

[ {"one": 1}, {"two": 2}]

and wish to convert it to this format:

{"one": 1}
{"two": 2}

to facilitate indexing it into ElasticSearch. (latter is called 'jsonl' format). JQ is my tool of preference but I can't figure out how to do this. Thanks

Answer 1

The key is the -c command-line option, which produces JSONL:

jq -c '.[]' test_array.json