Function to strip quotes from a string

[vishvananda]

When getting output from json apis and attempting to use them with other unix utilities, you often need just the value of a string without the surrounding quotes. Clearly i can do something like:

curl ... | jq .keypairs[$i].keypair.name | tr -d '"'

but it would be nice to be able to do:

curl ... | jq '.keypairs[$i].keypair.name | tovalue'

or something along those lines

[vishvananda]

alternatively it could be a comand line switch to print strings without quotes:

curl ... | jq -z .keypairs[$i].keypair.name

[ghost]

--raw-output / -r http://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/#Invokingjq

[vishvananda]

ah thanks didn't see that one

[Ripounet]

Great, thanks ghost

[StefanScherer]

Thanks @ghost !

[CanadianJeff]

awesome this helped me too thanks