How to get key names from JSON using jq

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curl http   testhost test com 8080 application app version   jq   version    jq        The above command outputs only the values as below    madireddy test com    2323    test    02-03-2014-13 41    application    How can I get the key names instead like the below   email  versionID  context  date  versionName

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You need to use jq  keys     For example   echo    example1    1   example2    2   example3    3     jq  keys      Will output a line separated list    example1   example2   example3

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In combination with the above answer  you want to ask jq for raw output  so your last filter should be eg         cat input json   jq -r  keys    From jq help        -r     output raw strings  not JSON texts

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To print keys on one line as csv   echo    b   2   a   1      jq -r  keys           tostring      csv    Output    a   b    For csv completeness     to print values on one line as csv   echo    b   2   a   1      jq -rS     jq -r              tostring      csv    Output    1   2

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To get the keys on a deeper node in an JSON   echo    data    1    user      name   2   phone   3        jq   user   keys     name   phone

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echo    ab   1   cd   2     jq -r  keys    prints all keys one key per line without quotes   ab cd

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You can use     jq  keys  file json       cat file json     Archiver-Version     Plexus Archiver    Build-Id         Build-Jdk     1 7 0 07    Build-Number         Build-Tag         Built-By     cporter    Created-By     Apache Maven    Implementation-Title     northstar    Implementation-Vendor-Id     com test testPack    Implementation-Version     testBox    Manifest-Version     1 0    appname     testApp    build-date     02-03-2014-13 41    version     testBox       jq  keys  file json      Archiver-Version      Build-Id      Build-Jdk      Build-Number      Build-Tag      Built-By      Created-By      Implementation-Title      Implementation-Vendor-Id      Implementation-Version      Manifest-Version      appname      build-date      version      UPDATE  To create a BASH array using these keys   Using BASH 4    mapfile -t arr  lt   lt  jq -r  keys    ms json    On older BASH you can do   arr    while IFS    read -r line  do    arr     line   done  lt   lt  jq  keys    ms json    Then print it   printf   s n    arr       Archiver-Version   Build-Id   Build-Jdk   Build-Number   Build-Tag   Built-By   Created-By   Implementation-Title   Implementation-Vendor-Id   Implementation-Version   Manifest-Version   appname   build-date   version

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Here s another way of getting a Bash array with the example JSON given by  anubhava in his answer   arr    jq --raw-output  keys unsorted    sh  file json    echo   arr 0         Archiver-Version  echo   arr 1         Build-Id  echo   arr 2         Build-Jdk

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