jq: print key and value for each entry in an object

Question

How do I get jq to take json like this:

{
  \"host1\": { \"ip\": \"10.1.2.3\" },
  \"host2\": { \"ip\": \"10.1.2.2\" },
  \"host3\": { \"ip\         


        

Answer 1

Came across very elegant solution

jq 'with_entries(.value |= .ip)'

Which ouputs

{
  "host1": "10.1.2.3",
  "host2": "10.1.2.2",
  "host3": "10.1.18.1"
}

Here is the jqplay snippet to play with: https://jqplay.org/s/Jb_fnBveMQ

The function with_entries converts each object in the list of objects to Key/Value-pair, thus we can access .key or .value respectively, we're updating (overwriting) every KV-item .value with the field .ip by using update |= operator