How To Install jq on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jq
on CentOS 7.
What is jq
lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text. It is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install jq
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jq.
Install jq on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install jq
using yum
by running the following command:
Install jq on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install jq
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall jq on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the jq
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jq
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.