Expand array elements appending a string to each in a loop

Question

Hopefully someone could point me in the right direction!

My input:

{
  "accounts": [
    "bob.doe",
    "joe.gomez",
    "bill.murr"
  ]
}

My attempt:

acc=$(cat $file |  jq -r  '.accounts[]' )
echo "$acc test"

Output:

bob.doe
joe.gomez
bill.murr test

It seems to treat all the values in JSON as one array object.

Desired output:

bob.doe test
joe.gomez test
bill.murr test

Any suggestions?

oguz ismail · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-04 07:07:17Z

3

The variable acc is assigned the entire output of JQ, there's no loop there. And you don't need one either.

$ jq -r '"\(.accounts[]) test"' file
bob.doe test
joe.gomez test
bill.murr test

edited Aug 4, 2020 at 7:07

answered Aug 3, 2020 at 16:56

oguz ismail

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bcsta Over a year ago

how would the code change if you want to do the exact same thing for all elements but the last one? Tried jq -r '"\(.accounts[:-1]) test"' but its not quite correct.

Chris · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-04 09:19:11Z

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thanks this got me on the right path!

sa=$(cat $file |  jq -r  '"\\n \"\(.service_accounts[])\" = [\"\(.namespace)\"]"')

answered Aug 4, 2020 at 9:19

Chris

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