Combine JSON files from a directory using jq

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How to merge 2 or more json files into one array for all using terminal? Use jq!

Navigate to the directory, and run this jq command.

Using the -s option will return an array containing the contents of the input JSON files, which, in your case, are also arrays. This means that you need to spread (…[]) two array levels, and collect ([…]) the result.

 

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