tomnomnom/gron
Make JSON greppable!
Recommended between 2025-09-11 and 2026-09-04. Last pushed 2025-05-31.
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“Big fan of gron[0] and zoxide[1]. Gron for flattening and viewing JSON”
— amterp, 2026-08-17 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Big fan of gron[0] and zoxide[1]. Gron for flattening and viewing JSON, and zoxide (z) for fuzzily jumping around on my system or on remote systems with z installed. Also been using Rad [2] (disclaimer: am author) to replace my suite of Bash scripts and write new ones, quite happy with one atm which sets reminders e.g. 'remind 2h check the CI build' which will give me an OS reminder in two hours, I use it a ton at work. [0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron [1] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide [2] https://github.com/amterp/rad
“Highly recommend gron.”
— xendo, 2026-03-27 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Highly recommend gron. https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
“For this I use gron [0]. It's very convenient.”
— rogue7, 2025-09-11 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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For this I use gron [0]. It's very convenient. [0]: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
“Try https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron .”
— pdimitar, 2026-09-04 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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> Or to search the contents of a JSON file, you would maybe use `grep`, or perhaps `jq` and a well crafted query Try https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron .
“You might like https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron”
— iamjackg, 2026-03-27 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
“I think it can replace jq in a lot of cases.”
— a-french-anon, 2025-11-07 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Tried gron ( https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron ) a bit? If you know your UNIX, I think it can replace jq in a lot of cases. And when it can't, well, you can reach for Python, I guess.
“The only sane configuration language is something similar to gron”
— afiori, 2025-09-19 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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The only sane configuration language is something similar to gron https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
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