'jq: error: syntax error, unexpected IDENT, expecting $end (Unix shell quoting issues?) at <top-level>

cat explorer/connection-profile/test-network.json | jq ".organizations.Org1MSP.adminPrivateKey.path |= 44ab"

jq: error: syntax error, unexpected IDENT, expecting $end (Unix shell quoting issues?) at <top-level>, line 1:
.organizations.Org1MSP.adminPrivateKey.path|=44ab                                               
jq: 1 compile error

but it works fine with

cat explorer/connection-profile/test-network.json | jq ".organizations.Org1MSP.adminPrivateKey.path |= 44"

Why?

Actually I am trying to use

cat explorer/connection-profile/test-network.json | jq ".organizations.Org1MSP.adminPrivateKey.path |= ${PRIV_KEY}"

where the ${PRIV_KEY} is 44ab..._sk

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Solution 1:[1]

You can assign a string to a variable that can be used inside a jq filter:

PRIV_KEY="44ab..._sk"
jq --arg path "$PRIV_KEY" '.organizations.Org1MSP.adminPrivateKey.path |= $path' explorer/connection-profile/test-network.json

This method is safer than trying to embed an expanded shell variable directly in the filter string because jq will properly handle arbitrary values instead of choking on things like quotes (Or their absence).

Note that jq takes filenames as arguments after the filter expression; no need for cat here (Unless that's standing in for curl or something, of course, and you're not using an existing file)

Solution 2:[2]

did you try this , i fixed the same error by setting the expression between '' and the values between ""

cat explorer/connection-profile/test-network.json | jq '.organizations.Org1MSP.adminPrivateKey.path |= "44ab"'

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Solution 1 Shawn
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