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

with python (2 and 3):

alias prettify_json="python -c 'import sys ;import json ; print(json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), indent=4))'"

or with ruby:

alias prettify_json="ruby -e \"require 'json';puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.parse(STDIN.read))\""

you can use:

echo '{"bar": "abc", "foo": "def"}' | prettify_json

curl http://.../file.json | prettify_json