Installation

Requirements

• Go 1.21 or newer (only required if installing from source / via go install).
• macOS, Linux, or Windows. The clipboard fallback uses atotto/clipboard and works on all three.

go install (recommended)

go install github.com/wuhan005/jkit/cmd/jkit@latest

The binary lands in $GOPATH/bin (or $HOME/go/bin). Make sure that directory is on your PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/go/bin:$PATH"

From source

git clone https://github.com/wuhan005/jkit.git
cd jkit
go install ./cmd/jkit

Verify

> jkit --help
NAME:
   jkit - JSON CLI Tool

USAGE:
   jkit [global options] command [command options]

COMMANDS:
   format, f  Pretty-print JSON
   cut, c     Fold JSON to a maximum depth
   get, g     Extract a JSON sub-element by path
   maker, m   Build a JSON string array from line-separated input
   help, h    Shows a list of commands or help for one command

Linux clipboard support

On Linux, the clipboard backend requires either xclip or xsel to be installed:

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install xclip
# or
sudo apt install xsel

# Arch
sudo pacman -S xclip

Without one of these, jkit will still work fine for piped / redirected input — only the clipboard fallback is unavailable.

Uninstall

rm "$(go env GOPATH)/bin/jkit"