jq - parse only JSON content and ignore the rest
This is really useful when you want to use #jq to parse content that has mixed with the JSON you need.
jq -R 'fromjson? | select(type == "object")'
Example of input:
This is some text to be ignored by jq...
{"error":{"code":1,"message":"Recovery amount id 2899 with status BLOCKING not processed for loan 6608"}}
...more content to be ignoredd
Command:
jq -R 'fromjson? | select(type == "object")' error.txt
Output:
{
"error": {
"code": 1,
"message": "Recovery amount id 2899 with status BLOCKING not processed for loan 6608"
}
}