I wanted to change this value

{
"data":"correctValue",
  "attributes": [
    {
      "otherValue": "incorrectValue"
    }
  ]
}

to

{
"data":"correctValue"
}

CodePudding user response：

Use jq to process json files. You want to remove attributes in the top level object, which can be achieved by

jq 'del(.attributes)' file.json

CodePudding user response：

Or, if instead of deleting the attributes you want to keep .data, you can do:

jq '{data: .data}' input-file