How can I pretty-print a JSON file from the command line?

Question

I\'ve a file with a sequence of JSON element:

{ element0: \"lorem\", value0: \"ipsum\" }
{ element1: \"lorem\", value0: \"ipsum\" }
...
{ elementN: \"lorem\"         


        

Answer 1

Colored output using Pygmentize + Python json.tool

Pygmentize is a killer tool. See this. I combine python json.tool with pygmentize

echo '{"foo": "bar"}' | python -m json.tool | pygmentize -g

For other similar tools and installation instruction see the answer linked above.

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