bro / jq wizardry in the shell

pipe_magic.sh

(cat files.log | grep EXTRACT | jbro | jq --slurp 'sort_by(.missing_bytes) | .[].conn_uids ' | jq --slurp 'flatten | unique | join("|") ' > /tmp/side.fifo & ); while read line </tmp/side.fifo; do cat conn.log | grep -E $line; break; done;

synchronous_magic.sh

grep -E $(cat files.log | grep EXTRACT | jbro | jq --slurp 'sort_by(.missing_bytes) | .[].conn_uids ' | jq --slurp 'flatten | unique | join("|") ') conn.log