jq: output array of json objects [duplicate]

Say I have the input:

{
    "name": "John",
    "email": "[email protected]"
}
{
    "name": "Brad",
    "email": "[email protected]"
}

How do I get the output:

[
    {
        "name": "John",
        "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
        "name": "Brad",
        "email": "[email protected]"
    }
]

I tried both:

jq '[. | {name, email}]'

and

jq '. | [{name, email}]'

which both gave me the output

[
    {
        "name": "John",
        "email": "[email protected]"
    }
]
[
    {
        "name": "Brad",
        "email": "[email protected]"
    }
]

I also saw no options for an array output in the documentations, any help appreciated

Solution 1:

Use slurp mode:

  o   --slurp/-s:

      Instead of running the filter for each JSON object
      in the input, read the entire input stream into a large
      array and run the filter just once.

$ jq -s '.' < tmp.json
[
  {
    "name": "John",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  {
    "name": "Brad",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  }
]