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Looks awesome, one of my frustrations with jq has always been that I can't see what data I'm going to be retrieving until I run it.

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This can help with seeing the data structure which might help with incrementaly creeping up on what values you are looking for.

https://github.com/TomConlin/json_to_paths

... which seems quite similar to gron [1]?

[1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

Does not seem to be the same as `gron` from what I can see, `gron` makes JSON greppable and diffable, whereas `json_to_paths` seems to be outputting `jq` paths for each element, making it easy to select it.

Unexpected Betteridge's law of headlines ...

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