Create table placeholder for JIRA/Confluence

echo '|name|x|' ; echo '|----|----|' ; <data generating command here. e.g. pbpaste>  | awk '{print "|"$0"| |"}'

Convert escaped JSON string

Azure management API/batch/ARG

# copy full request payload into clipboard
pbpaste | jq '.requests[0].content.query' | jq -rR 'fromjson'