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

You can use jq package which can be installed in all Linux systems. Install the tool using below commands.

# Redhat based systems(Centos)
yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y jq

# Debian based systems
apt install -y jq

Then you will be able to pipe text streams to the jq tool.

echo '{"test":"value", "test2":"value2"}' | jq

Hope this answer will help.