der.hans has 2 topics for this Thursday's meeting "Intro to jq: grep for JSON" and "Command Line Quiz Time"
This is a remote meeting.  Please join by going to https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/b/plu-yuk-7xx at 7pm on Thursday November 11th

der.hans: Intro to jq: grep for JSON

Description:
Want to parse JSON on the command line?
Want a pipeable inline tool for JSON manipulation?

jq is a powerful tool that's easy to fit into your data pipeline.
It can parse, search and manipulate JSON documents.

This talk will cover an introduction to jq and using it to search JSON objects similar to how grep is used for plain text.

Attendees will learn:

* basic parts of JSON
* key search
* value matching
* string match
* using variables with jq
* conditionals
* regular expressions
* prettified JSON output

der.hans: Command Line Quiz Time

Description:
Audience participative community building exercise sharing geekly knowledge in short question and exercise format.

About der.hans:
der.hans works remotely in the US.
In the FLOSS community he is active with conferences and local groups.

He's chairman of PLUG, chair for SeaGL Finance committee, founder of SeaGL Career Expo, RaiseMe career counselor, BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch.

He speaks regularly at community-led FLOSS conferences such as SeaGL, Tux-Tage, Penguicon, SCaLE, LCA, FOSSASIA, Tübix, CLT, Kieler Linux Tage, LFNW, OLF, SELF and GeekBeacon Fest.

Hans is available to speak remotely for local groups.

Currently leads a support engineering team at Object Rocket. Public statements are not representative of $dayjob.

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