Using jq with bash to run command for each object in array

Question

How can I run a Bash command for every JSON object in a JSON array using jq? So far I have this:

cat credentials.json | jq -r \'.[] | .user, .date, .         


        

Answer 1

Here is another variation which I based on the answer from @chepner.

echo "$config" | jq -c '.[]' |
while IFS=$"\n" read -r c; do
    echo "start"
    host=$(echo "$c" | jq -r '.host')
    echo $host
    echo "end"
done

I used jq's -c option to output "compact" jsons, so they are all on one line.

In combination with IFS=$"\n", I was able to loop over each item in the input json's array and do what I wanted to do.

So, with an input of

[
 {
  "host": "host1",
  "settings": {}
 },
 {
  "host": "host1",
  "settings": {}
 }
]

the output is

start
host1
end
start
host2
end