Raw value output

[qmacro]

Greetings and thanks for fx!

I'm looking to output "raw" values. For example, with jq -r .[].propI can get a list of raw values for theprop` property of items in an array:

$ jq -r .[].prop
foo
bar
baz

In Discover how to use fx effectively, in the "Using xargs" section, I see this:

fx prints strings into stdout as “raw” strings without quotes so this can be useful for making fx filters talk to non-JSON-based systems.

But this doesn't seem to work as I expect (and I'm not wanting to pass any args in) ... or I'm misunderstanding what this sentence means, because this happens:

$ fx list.json .[].prop
[
  "foo",
  "bar",
  "baz"
]

... and I I have to use something like this, from the Formatting section of the docs:

$ fx list.json 'this.forEach(x => console.log(x.prop))'
foo
bar
baz

What am I not understanding here? Thanks!

[antonmedv]

Last example is what will give list of raw values. You can wrap it in a helper if you want.

[qmacro]

Thanks, appreciated!

[antonmedv]

Also fx has a special function for this: list