JQ single-quoted string error

jq_single_quote_help.md

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Issue

When we get Invalid numeric literal error when on colon following a single-quoted string

echo "{'foo':'bar'}" | jq
jq: parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 7

Fix

jq has text manipulation support and a fromjson function so we can do something like:

$ echo "{'foo':'bar'}" | jq -R "gsub(\"'\"; \"\\\"\") | fromjson"
{
  "foo": "bar"
}

Reference

• jqlang/jq#501 (comment)