I'll add `plutil` to the list. It's great for reading plist files, but did you know it can parse json too?
/usr/bin/plutil -extract your.key.path raw -o - - <<< "$jsoninput"
(obviously, less useful now that `jq`is built in)
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/usr/bin/plutil -extract your.key.path raw -o - - <<< "$jsoninput"
(obviously, less useful now that `jq`is built in)
; which jq
/usr/bin/jq
; jq
jq - commandline JSON processor [version 1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty]