[galdosdi]

I cannot describe how much I love jq. Best new (to me) tool I discovered in all of 2020.

Once you get the hang of it the syntax feels extremely powerful. The only other thing it reminded me of is the first time I learned enough SQL to be dangerous.

You really, really are going to want to check jq out at least a little if you want to improve the state of the art in this area. It has an excellent manual btw.

Edit: you ask about "metaformats" such as object per newline. jq handles this well too