jq cheatsheet
looping over JSON jq -c '.[]' input.json | while read i; do # do stuff with $i done source marshalling JSON strings input {"date":"2018-01-08"} output "{\"date\":\"2018-01-08\"}" command printf "{\"date\":\"2018-01-08\"}" | jq '. | tojson' source unmarshalling JSON strings input Sample test.json contents: "{\"date\":\"2018-01-08\"}" output {"date":"2018-01-08"} command jq '. | fromjson' < test.json source