jq

Basics

Iterating through an array

jq -r ".[] | .some_attribute" input.json

Serialized JSON string to JSON object

fromjson operator

Snippets

Extract each element in an array/object to a separate file

for key in (jq -r '.foobar|keys[]' input.json);jq ".foobar[$key]" input.json > object_$k.json;end