json example alternative without jq

External dependency not usually installed, so describe separately.

diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index b6f60ef2a6b36355c1de63f3d6a96a935fe108ea..d3ba821a27802df355ad070a43633d828fba3c16 100755 (executable)
--- a/barcat
+++ b/barcat
@@ -349,7 +349,10 @@ Any kind of database query with counts, preserving returned alignment:
 External datasets, like movies per year:
 
     curl https://github.com/prust/wikipedia-movie-data/raw/master/movies.json |
-    jq '.[].year' | uniq -c | barcat
+    perl -054 -nlE 'say if s/^"year"://' | uniq -c | barcat
+
+But please get I<jq> to process JSON
+and replace the manual selection by C<< jq '.[].year' >>.
 
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