Get epic summary from key name?

[guysv]

I have my epic key, but jira only seems to support listing subitems of epic with "list"? there's no equivalent "view" command for epics.

I'd also like to use it in a script so if I somehow can just resolve the summary from the epic key, that would be great. (so no pretty-printing please, json is even better)

[ankitpokhrel]

Hi @guysv, you can use jira issue view <KEY> to view epic descriptions. If you want to get a summary of an issue/epic with a key you can do something like this.

jira issue list -q"key=ISS-1" --plain --no-headers --columns=summary | awk '{$1="";print $0}'

[guysv]

thanks!