I'm trying to convert an object that looks like this: { "123" : "abc", "231" : "dbh", "452" : "xyz" } To csv that looks like this: "123","abc" "231","dbh" "452","xyz" I would prefer to use the command line tool jq but can't seem to figure out how to do the assignment. I managed to get the keys with jq '. | keys' test.json but couldn't figure out what to do next. The problem is you can't convert a