Cheatsheet Pages / jq Cheatsheet
How to filter JSON by exact string match with jq select
Only the admins, please — string comparison with ==, quotes included.
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 -r '.users[] | select(.role == "admin") | .name' config.json
# output: ana