diff --git a/pages/common/jq.md b/pages/common/jq.md
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--- a/pages/common/jq.md
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@@ -4,24 +4,24 @@
 
 - Output a JSON file, in pretty-print format:
 
-`cat {{file}} | jq`
+`jq . {{file.json}}`
 
 - Output all elements from arrays (or all key-value pairs from objects) in a JSON file:
 
-`cat {{file}} | jq .[]`
+`jq .[] {{file.json}}`
 
 - Read JSON objects from a file into an array, and output it (inverse of `jq .[]`):
 
-`cat {{file}} | jq --slurp`
+`jq --slurp . {{file.json}}`
 
 - Output the first element in a JSON file:
 
-`cat {{file}} | jq .[0]`
+`jq .[0] {{file.json}}`
 
-- Output the value of a given key of the first element in a JSON file:
+- Output the value of a given key of the first element in a JSON from stdin:
 
-`cat {{file}} | jq .[0].{{key_name}}`
+`cat {{file.json}} | jq .[0].{{key_name}}`
 
-- Output the value of a given key of each element in a JSON file:
+- Output the value of a given key of each element in a JSON from stdin:
 
-`cat {{file}} | jq 'map(.{{key_name}})'`
+`cat {{file.json}} | jq 'map(.{{key_name}})'`