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The normal practice would be to redirect to a temporary file and then move the temp file over the original.

jq -c '.....' infile > /tmp/jqtemp.$$ && mv -f /tmp/jqtemp.$$ infile

It's not valid to have same key multiple times in the one record. Try running your input thru a JSON validator (https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/)

After reading your request again it appears you want to identify an IP addresses in any non-array JSON data array and convert it to an array.

input :
{"adaptor" : "ip01" , "gateway" :...