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

I use jshon to do exactly what you're describing. Just run:

echo $COMPACTED_JSON_TEXT | jshon

You can also pass arguments to transform the JSON data.