Pretty Print JSON in the Terminal
Working with JSON on command line can be tough to read, use this Python one-liner, to clean it up.
cat json | python -mjson.toolWritten by James Barnett
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It just works! Thanks!
BTW, do you know such a neat one-liner which also adds syntax highlighting?
over 1 year ago
·
@antonov, I tried:
alias jsonpp='cat $1 | python -mjson.tool | pygmentize -l'
but the python have problem getting the piped input.
So I used a function:
function jsonpp ()
{
cat "$@" | python -mjson.tool | pygmentize -l json
}
over 1 year ago
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Assuming the JSON is already un-minified, you can just use pygmentize -g file.json
over 1 year ago
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