Task: Replace jq

Replace jq

jq is a handy tool for writing shell scripts, but it's also frustrating.

Perl (5.14+) provides JSON::PP which can handle the json parsing side of things. Evaluating then becomes a problem for Perl instead of another programming language.

Tasks

• --slurpfile is pretty magical, but it's only used in one place
• wrap_in_json is a function, so replacing it should be pretty easy
• wrap_file_in_json is a function, so replacing it should be pretty easy
• jq -s is used once
• jq --arg is used once in a call curl which could be replaced by gh
• jq length is used once
• jq w/o -r has a handful of other uses which probably should all have -r
• jq -r is used >80 times -- they're all fairly simple, but replacing them will probably happen as more code is refactored from shell to perl