How to drill into nested JSON objects with jq

The value you want is buried a few objects deep.

Every filter was executed against the cheatsheet's sample config.json with jq 1.7 before publishing; the sample file sits at the bottom of the cheatsheet so you can reproduce every output.

jq '.owner.email' config.json
# input:  {"owner":{"name":"Ezra","email":"ezra@example.com"}}
# output: "ezra@example.com"

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