I am facing some kind of permission issue here. I am able to read a file with cat, make changes to it using nano but for some reason, jq is having permission issues. Here is what I am facing:
msp@coolpad:~/projects/lol$ jq .name lol.json
jq: error: Could not open file lol.json: Permission denied
On checking permissions, this is what I get:
msp@coolpad:~/projects/lol$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 msp msp 0 Sep 27 04:04 lol-domains.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 msp msp 593 Sep 27 04:38 lol.json
As you can see, I have tried giving it 777 permission, still it's showing Permission denied. I know this is not a good idea to set 777 permission and I fully intend to change it back to 664 once the issue is resolved. Anyhelp would be appriciated.
Update 1: I have tried re-installing jq from snap but still, it doesn't solve the problem.
Update 2: Output of cat lol.json
msp@coolpad:~$ cat lol.json
{"name":"lol"}
Update 3: Output of echo '{"name":"lol"}' | jq .name
msp@coolpad:~$ echo '{"name":"lol"}' | jq .name
"lol"
Update 4: One work-around that poped up in comments:
cat lol.json | jq .name
sudo snap remove jq
sudo apt install jq
Never install command line tools with snap without --classic. This error is indented behavior.