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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ If you'd like to just run the stream, clone this repo. The stream will handle in
 ```
 /ngen-datastream/scripts/stream.sh /ngen-datastream/configs/conf_datastream.json
 ```
+Note: requires jq
 
 ### Example `conf_datastream.json`
 ```