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Gustavo
Gustavo

Reputation: 1418

Powershell not handling whitespaces in jq string interpolation command

I'm trying to follow this: https://jqlang.org/manual/#string-interpolation

In powershell I try this: echo '{"key": "value"}' | jq '\"Theinputwas:\(.key)\"'

And get this: "Theinputwas:value"

But, if I try to add whitespaces in the string: echo '{"key": "value"}' | jq '\"The input was:\(.key)\"'

I get: jq: error: syntax error, unexpected end of file, expecting QQSTRING_TEXT or QQSTRING_INTERP_START or QQSTRING_END (Windows cmd shell quoting issues?)

I spent a lot of time to finally make the interpolation work on powershell because of the multiple quotes, but now I'm stuck with this whitespace problem that is not mentioned by jq.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 32

Answers (1)

pmf
pmf

Reputation: 36336

this whitespace problem that is not mentioned by jq

This is not a problem with jq on Linux, so I guess it has to do with the different quoting/escaping rules in Windows/PowerShell. Apparently, adding a space character either after the opening or before the closing code quote seems to work (with jq 1.7.1 in PS 5.1 on Win 10):

echo '{"key": "value"}' | jq ' \"The input was:\(.key)\"'
# space added here -----------^     or here -----------v
echo '{"key": "value"}' | jq '\"The input was:\(.key)\" '

"The input was:value"

Upvotes: 0

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