How can I pretty-print JSON in a shell script?

Question

Is there a (Unix) shell script to format JSON in human-readable form?

Basically, I want it to transform the following:

{ \"foo\": \"lorem\", \"bar\":         


        

Answer 1

Try pjson. It has colors!

Install it with pip:

⚡ pip install pjson

And then pipe any JSON content to pjson.