Delete objects and arrays with jq which match a key

Question

I have a JSON with the following content:

{
  \"data\": [
    {
      \"name\": \"Test\",
      \"program\": {
        \"publicAccess\": \"--------\",
               


        

Answer 1

Your problem is when type == "array" is true . will be an array so .userGroupAccesses won't work. What you want to do is focus on the case when . is an object. In your call to walk you only need to check for type == "object" and then remove the members you don't want. e.g.

walk(if type == "object" then del(.publicAccess, .userGroupAccesses) else . end)

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You can also solve this without walk by using Recursive Descent .. e.g.

del(.. | .publicAccess?, .userGroupAccesses?)

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