I can never remember jq's syntax so I wrote a json processor that parses json input onto a stack, and transforms the JSON by chaining simple stack operations together. It feels a lot more natural to me, but maybe I'm too close to the code 🙂 https://github.com/dnmfarrell/jp

OMG, written in shell! No dependencies. Immediate install.

Hah, thanks! if you get to using it, I'd appreciate any feedback you have

Yeah. I'm going to keep it in mind next time I reach for jq. It's not very often but it does happen.