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11th March 2021

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TIL Flattening nested JSON objects with jq — I wanted to take a nested set of JSON objects and import them into a SQLite database using `sqlite-utils insert` - but I wanted to "flatten" some of the nested rows.

Posted 11th March 2021 at 3:54 pm

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