Filtering JSON based on key value using jq

Consider the following JSON with many resources:

{
  "values": {
    "root_module": {
      "resources": [
        ...,
        {
          "address": "aws_iam_access_key.circleci",
          "values": {
            "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXX",
            "secret": "XXXXXXXXXXXX"
          }
        },
        ...
      ]
    }
  }
}

Now you want to filter that json to only see values for objects with address equal to aws_iam_access_key.circleci. You can use jq tool to do it:

DATA | jq  '.values.root_module.resources | map(select(.address == "aws_iam_access_key.circleci"))'

DATA can be sth like cat my.json or in this particular example: terraform show -json.

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