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How to get udid for a particular device from shell using jq
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With JQ installed - output of this command is string with quotes

xcrun simctl list --json | jq '.devices["iOS 12.0"] [] | select(.name=="iPhone X") | .udid'

With JQ if you don't want quotes

xcrun simctl list --json | jq -r '.devices["iOS 12.0"] [] | select(.name=="iPhone X") | .udid'

Without JQ installed

xcrun simctl list | grep "Booted" | cut -d '(' -f2 | cut -d ')' -f1
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