How to add a header to CSV export in jq?

Question

I\'m taking a modified command from the jq tutorial:

curl \'https://api.github.com/repos/stedolan/jq/commits?per_page=5\' \\
| jq -r -c \'.[] | {mes         


        

Answer 1

Based on Anton's comments on Jeff Mercado's answer, this snippet will get the key names of the properties of the first element and output them as an array before the rows, thus using them as headers. If different rows have different properties, then it won't work well; then again, neither would the resulting CSV.

map({message: .commit.message, name: .commit.committer.name}) | (.[0] | to_entries | map(.key)), (.[] | [.[]]) | @csv