To output the merged file into a json file

Question

Please let me know how to merge 2 json files into a new json file.

I used jq , and used the below command:

jq -s add file1.json file2.json > Output.json

But I am not getting the output in json ascii encode. While pasing I get an error :

Failed to parse template: Error parsing JSON: invalid character 'ÿ' looking for beginning of value

Please let me know how can I output to json file in a windows command prompt.

Answer 1

Since jq doesn't require a valid JSON to read in a file, any JSON stream will do, I would suggest you just append the two files

cat file1.json >> file2.json

That said, I believe you can use jq -s '.[0] * .[1]' file1 file2 to merge two JSON files

See: How to merge 2 json file using jq?