JQ - more filtering, more fun

 Building upon earlier posts, I wanted to streamline the output from a REST API that returns a list of running containers: -

curl -s -k -X GET https://my.endpoint.com/containers -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Bearer '"$ACCESS_TOKEN" | jq '.data[] | select (.Names[] | contains("dave"))' | jq .Names

[
  "/davehay_k8s_worker_1"
]
[
  "/davehay_k8s_master"
]
[
  "/davehay_k8s_worker_2"
]

Specifically, I wanted to remove the extraneous square brackets and double quotes ...

Here we go ...

curl -s -k -X GET https://my.endpoint.com/containers -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Bearer '"$ACCESS_TOKEN"  | jq '.data[] | select (.Names[] | contains("dave"))' | jq -r .Names[]

/davehay_k8s_worker_1

/davehay_k8s_master

/davehay_k8s_worker_2

As with everything, there's a better way ....

But this works for me :-)