Given
[3,4]
[5,2]
I'd like to produce:
[5,2]
[3,4]
I tried this but it fails:
echo '[3,4] [5,2]' | jq 'sort_by(.[1])'
jq: error (at <stdin>:1): Cannot index number with number
jq: error (at <stdin>:1): Cannot index number with number
sort by element in array using jq
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1 Answers
Use -n with inputs to access the stream's items. [...] collects them into an outer array, sort_by(...) sorts by criteria, ...[] decomposes the outer array again, and -c makes the output compact
jq -nc '[inputs] | sort_by(.[1])[]'
[5,2]
[3,4]
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