Multiple file input

[jordao76]

It would be good to support multiple files as input.

[davidnussio]

I never used multiple files as input but it seem interesting feature. Could you give me some command line examples?

Thanks

[jordao76]

Sure,

I need to concatenate certain JSON files into a single file, and make a JSON object where each key is the original file name and the value is the original file JSON.

I can do this for two files like this:

jq '{ (input_filename|rtrimstr(".json")) : . }' file1.json file2.json | jq -s add

I'm sure there's a way to do it in one jq command, but you get the idea.

What I actually do is read all files in a folder and do that:

ls -I data.json | xargs jq '{ (input_filename|rtrimstr(".json")) : . }' | jq -s add > data.json

[davidnussio]

Better late than never, sorry :) Today I checked out the use case, I think I will release something like this