bash - "Argument list too long" while slurping JSON files

Question

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Answer 1

Built-in commands are immune to that limitation, and printf is one of them. In conjunction with xargs, it would help a lot to achieve this.

printf '%s' *.json | xargs -0 cat -- | jq -s