set a value with jq names with full stops in them-CodePudding

I'm wondering how i can escape the newValue so jq replaces the value in :

#!/bin/sh

test="{ \"one.one\" : { \"version\" : \"0.0.1\" }, \"two.two\" : { \"version\" : \"0.0.2\" } }"
newvalue="3.3.3"
newjson=$(echo $test | jq '."two.two".version = "$newvalue" ')
echo $newjson

outputs:

{ "one.one": { "version": "0.0.1" }, "two.two": { "version": "$newvalue" } }

none of the escapes i tried \" \' around $newvalue seems to work

CodePudding user response：

First of all, to use a variable, it can't be in quotes. Replace

"$newvalue"

with

$newvalue

Secondly, you never set $newvalue in the jq program. To achieve that, you can use the following:

--arg newvalue "$newvalue"