[zmmmmm]

i get that it's more powerful but I almost consider it an anti-feature. I have very good tools for doing transformations (sed,awk,perl, etc etc) the problem is they all want line oriented format and JSON breaks that. So all I want is a tool to go from json => line oriented and I will do the rest with the vast library of experience I already have at transformations on the command line.

[reegnz]

> So all I want is a tool to go from json => line oriented and I will do the rest with the vast library of experience I already have at transformations on the command line.*

The tool for that is likely https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron It's probably the best tool to go back and forth easily between json and line oriented.

[cryptonector]

`jq -c paths` will show you all the paths in a JSON text. You can totally use jq in a very gron-like manner. Try it.