How to filter an list by the value of an inner dict with jq?

Question

Giving the input JSON:

[
  {
    "name": "foo",
    "value": 1
  },
  {
    "name": "bar",
    "value": 1
  },
  {
    "name": "foo",
    "value": 2
  }
]

I'm trying to get the dicts with the name foo, so the expecting output is:

{
  "name": "foo",
  "value": 1
},
{
  "name": "foo",
  "value": 2
}

Answer 1

Try this

jq '.[] | select(.name == "foo")' 

Demo