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page_title: Use jq and Packer to comment your templates - Guides
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description: |-
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You can add detailed comments beyond the root-level underscore-prefixed field
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supported by Packer, and remove them using jq.
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# How to use jq to strip unsupported comments from a Packer template
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-> **Note:** Packer supports HCL2 from version 1.6.0, the Hashicorp Configuration
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Language allows to comment directly in template files. Consider upgrading your
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JSON template to HCL2 using the `packer hcl2_upgrade` command.
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One of the biggest complaints we get about Packer is that JSON doesn't use comments.
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For Packer JSON templates, you can add detailed comments beyond the root-level underscore-prefixed field supported by Packer, and remove them using jq.
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Let's say we have a file named `commented_template.json`
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```json
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{
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"_comment": ["this is", "a multi-line", "comment"],
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"builders": [
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{
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"_comment": "this is a comment inside a builder",
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"type": "null",
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"communicator": "none"
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}
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],
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"_comment": "this is a root level comment",
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"provisioners": [
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{
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"_comment": "this is a different comment",
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"type": "shell",
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"_comment": "this is yet another comment",
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"inline": ["echo hellooooo"]
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}
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]
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}
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```
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```shell-session
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$ jq 'walk(if type == "object" then del(._comment) else . end)' commented_template.json > uncommented_template.json
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```
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will produce a new file containing:
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```json
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{
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"builders": [
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{
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"type": "null",
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"communicator": "none"
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}
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],
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"provisioners": [
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{
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"type": "shell",
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"inline": ["echo hellooooo"]
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}
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]
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}
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```
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Once you've got your uncommented file, you can call `packer build` on it like
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you normally would.
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## The walk function
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If your install of jq does not have the walk function and you get an error like
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```text
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jq: error: walk/1 is not defined at <top-level>,
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```
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You can create a file `~/.jq` and add the [walk function](https://github.com/stedolan/jq/blob/ad9fc9f559e78a764aac20f669f23cdd020cd943/src/builtin.jq#L255-L262) to it by hand.
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