passing arguments to jq filter

Question

Here is my config.json:

{
    \"env\": \"dev\",
    \"dev\": {
        \"projects\" : {
            \"prj1\": {
                \"dependencies\": {},
                


        

Answer 1

you can do this:

    key="dev.projects.prj1"
    filter=".$key"
    cat config.json | jq $filter