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JSON with curl and jq

This blog post captures some quick commands to deal with JSON from servers (Http APIs) using curl and jq command line tools About Jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ Install jq: Mac: brew install jq Ubuntu or Debian: sudo apt-get install jq Sample JSON content: Assume the following JSON content will be returned from  URL http://api.example.com/some-json-content {     "user_name": "User 123",     "some_other_field": {         "sub_field": "sub_value"     },     "array_field": [         {             "field1": "value1",             "field2": "value2"         },         {             "field1": "value3",             "field2": "value4"         }     ] } UR...