How to run jq from gitbash in windows?
Easiest solution and always latest version:
run this curl in your gitbash:
curl -L -o /usr/bin/jq.exe https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/latest/download/jq-win64.exe
or manually save the jq-win64.exe
in link above as jq.exe
to your /usr/bin
(which is in your git bash installation folder)
(if you are behind a proxy add the -x proxyhost:port
)
I hate answers that say you need another to use another tool to download, but using https://chocolatey.org/ made this incredibly simple for me.
From an elevated command-prompt, run:
choco install jq
jq
magically works from bash going forward.
Using jq-win64.exe
from github.com/stedolan/jq/releases
, I get
vonc@voncav MINGW64 /d/prgs/dl
$ ./jq-win64.exe --version
jq-1.6
vonc@voncav MINGW64 /d/prgs/dl
$ echo '{"foo": 0}' | ./jq-win64.exe .
{
"foo": 0
}
So it does work, but it then depends on the json document you are parsing with it.
If that json document is not well-formed, that would generate the error you see.
In your bash session, you can define (or add to your ~/.bashrc
) an alias:
alias jq=/path/to/jq-win64.exe
That way, you don't need to use ./jq
, but directly jq
.
$ echo '{"foo": 0}' | jq
In my case:
vonc@voncav:/$ alias jq=/mnt/d/dwnl/jq-win64.exe
vonc@voncav:/$ echo '{"foo": 0}' | jq
{
"foo": 0
}