How to run jq from gitbash in windows?

Question

I have gitbash in Windows. I am trying to run jq but its giving me error.

$ ./jq-win64.exe 
jq 
parse error: Invalid numeric litera         


        

Answer 1

Easiest solution and always latest version:

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run this curl in your gitbash:

curl -L -o /usr/bin/jq.exe https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/latest/download/jq-win64.exe

or manually save the jq-win64.exe in link above as jq.exe to your /usr/bin (which is in your git bash installation folder)

(if you are behind a proxy add the -x proxyhost:port)