I don&#x27;t really see what your complaint is.<p>The problem you&#x27;re describing isn&#x27;t a shortcoming of jq and the other tools in the article, it&#x27;s a shortcoming of the brain dead JSON encoding.<p>If you need to process data like that, you&#x27;ll have to console yourself to the fact it won&#x27;t be process-able as a shell one-liner.