Extract a specific row from a table

Goal: Pull a single row out of a Markdown table by its position.

Prerequisites: None.

Query

.[2][]

$ mq '.[2][]' README.md

Input

| Name  | Age | City |
| ----- | --- | ---- |
| Alice | 30  | NYC  |
| Bob   | 25  | LA   |

Output

| Bob | 25 | LA |

Notes

• Row indexing starts at the header: index 0 is the header row, 1 is the first data row (Alice), 2 is the second (Bob).
• To get the cells as plain text instead of a rendered row, pipe through to_text: mq '.[2][] | to_text' README.md prints Bob, 25, LA on separate lines. -F json dumps the full node structure (position info and all), not just the values, so it’s rarely what you want here.
• Need the row as a keyed record instead ({"Name": "Bob", "Age": "25", "City": "LA"})? See Extract all tables from a document and use table::to_array, which returns rows in that shape without the header-offset indexing above.