```bash ~ $ jq '(..|select(startswith("$")?)) |= {meta: .}' <<< '["a", "$b"]' [ "a", { "meta": "$b" } ] ~ $ jaq '(..|select(startswith("$")?)) |= {meta: .}' <<< '["a", "$b"]' thread 'main' has overflowed its stack fatal runtime error: stack overflow Abort ```