Installing the jq JSON command-line utility

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A Cloud Pak for Data OADP backup and restore utility script, cpd-operators.sh, and some backup and restore commands, require the jq JSON command-line utility.

Procedure

Run the following commands to download and validate the utility:

jq --version
  wget -O jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.6/jq-linux64
  chmod +x ./jq
  cp jq /usr/bin