Modify a key-value in a json using jq in-place

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Use a temporary file; it’s what any program that claims to do in-place editing is doing.

tmp=$(mktemp)
jq '.address = "abcde"' test.json > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" test.json

If the address isn’t hard-coded, pass the correct address via a jq argument:

address=abcde
jq --arg a "$address" '.address = $a' test.json > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" test.json

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