On 16/09/20 13:25, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> No, only developers need jq and only if they add configure options. >> Using Python would certainly be possible, though probably it wouldn't be >> a one-liner as for jq. > I see. Avoiding the dependency would be nice but only if the alternative > is reasonable.
I guess this counts as reasonable: python3 -c 'import json, sys; print( json.dumps(sorted([x for x in json.loads(sys.stdin.read()) if x["section"] == "user"], key=lambda x: x["name"]), indent=2))' Paolo