How to install jq on amazon EC2 instance

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aMoL Thite picture aMoL Thite · Aug 2, 2016 · Viewed 19.2k times · Source

I am trying to install jq JSON parser on amazon instance, unfortunately, i'm not able to install it can someone guide me.

Answer

Frederic Henri picture Frederic Henri · Aug 2, 2016

jq is available in the yum repo so run the following

sudo yum install jq

will install jq on the instance

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