Episode 842 transcript

FLOSS-842 Jonathan: Hey folks. This week we talk with Mattias and Michael about jq, the command line tool that works with JSON, that is secretly a scripting language all unto itself. It's a lot of fun. You don't want to miss it. This is Floss weekly episode 842, according to Tuesday, August the 12th, will the real JQ please stand up. Hey folks, it is time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about three Libre and open source software. I'm your host Jonathan Bennett, and we are back. We took sort of an unintentional three week break there. I blame the summertime and everybody traveling, but we've got guests lining up again and we are back for the duration. Today we've got. Mattias Wadman and Michael Farber, they're gonna tell me how badly I butchered their names as soon as we bring them on. But we're talking about jq, the command line tool, but also sort of the ecosystem that's grown up around this idea of dealing with JSON information in the command line and in various different places. So rather than me talk about this tool that I've only used a few times. I'm gonna bring the guys on the absolute experts and I will say welcome to the show, both of you. I appreciate you being here. Th…