[rgrau]

A very useful function in jq is "join", which I use a lot to cook the final shape of the data (many times used with fzf/dmenu)

Here's a simple way to list and browse github issues of a given user/repo:

    #!/usr/bin/env sh

    browse_url() {
      firefox http://github.com/$1/issues/$2
    }

    issue=$(curl https://api.github.com/repos/$1/issues |
          jq -r 'map([(.number|tostring), .title] | join(" | ")) | join("\n")' |
          dmenu -i -l 10 |
          awk "{print \$1}")

    browse_url $1 $issue

Although the `| join("\n")` part could be done in a more idomatic way with just `[]`, sometimes the manual way are still clearer to me:

    map([(.number|tostring), .title] | join(" | "))[]

[ekimekim]

Personally I find it clearer in many cases to use a format string instead. ie. instead of writing:

    [(.number|tostring), .title] | join(" | ")

I would write:

    "\(.number) | \(.title)"

which IMO is more readable in cases where you have specific values you want to put in specific places, as opposed to a list of unknown length which you want joined (eg. I would still use join("\n") in your example).

[rgrau]

Oh!

I didn't know that one could build an arbitrary string like that inside a map.

Thanks a lot for that, I agree it looks better!