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Remove Double Quotes From Strings In jq Output

Use the `-r`` flag to remove double quotes from output strings:

Code

echo '["alfa"]' | jq -r '.[0]'

Results

alfa

vs. without the `-r``:

Code

echo '["alfa"]' | jq '.[0]'h

Results

"alfa"