---
title: "Get better at jq interactively | ijq"
description: "has some syntax that will sneak up on you with complexity. It looks so good, and so understandable, but everytime I go to use it myself, I don't get it. is..."
date: 2022-07-15
published: false
tags:
  - cli
template: til
---


`jq` has some syntax that will sneak up on you with complexity. It looks so good,
and so understandable, but everytime I go to use it myself, I don't get it.
`ijq` is an interactive alternative to `jq` that gives you and nice repl that you
can iterate on queries quickly.

```bash
paru -Syu ijq
```

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