From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <perl@shiar.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2019 14:12:06 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: json example alternative without jq
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json example alternative without jq

External dependency not usually installed, so describe separately.
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diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index b6f60ef..d3ba821 100755
--- 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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