Parse JSON Elements in Array with jq

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to print just the attributes->preferences section in the following JSON example using jq. What's throwing me is that this is an array that contains multiple entries that are identified by an id key value pair and I need the attributes->preferences section just from the array element with id 1 without knowing the exact order of the array entries ahead of time.

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "attributes": {
      "preferences": {
        "key1": "value1",
        "key2": "value2",
        "key3": "value3",
        "key4": "value4",
        ...
      }
    },
    ...
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    ...
  },
  {
    "id": 4,
    ...
  },
  ...
]

My desired output would be:

{
  "key1": "value1",
  "key2": "value2",
  "key3": "value3",
  "key4": "value4",
  ...
}

ikegami · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-30 18:54:28Z

1

jq '.[] | select( .id == 1 ) | .attributes.preferences'

Demo on jqplay

answered Dec 30, 2021 at 18:54

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