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[pavel_lishin]

Hey, me too! It's pretty awesome, although the documentation/examples aren't as great as they could be - it took me some time to figure out how to properly parse arrays, and I'm still not sure how to actually do what I want to do (I want to convert an array of two instance objects into an array with just two instance IDs.

[mh- → pavel_lishin]

    % aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids '["i-3026a249","i-28739551"]' \
    | jq '[.Reservations[].Instances[].InstanceId]'
    [
      "i-28739551",
      "i-3026a249"
    ]

[pavel_lishin → mh-]

Thanks!