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I am having trouble deleting all empty arrays from a JSON file with jq.

I've tried:

walk(if type == "array" then map(select(length > 0)) else . end)

which removes empty strings, but the arrays stay in the document. Is there a way to remove the arrays completely? Thank you for your support.

Katja Eichelberger
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    Please show us your input json. For more info about asking a question; please read [ask] / [mre]. – 0stone0 Oct 04 '21 at 10:34

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You could walk through using .., select everything that is an empty array [] and set it to empty

(.. | select(. == [])) |= empty

Edit:

In this comment, oguz ismail uses del() instead of |= empty which is the preferred approach if the empty arrays to be deleted may be located not only in an object {"a":[]} but also in a superordinate array ([[]]).

del(.. | select(. == []))
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