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

1. brew install jq
2. command + | jq
3. (example: curl localhost:5000/blocks | jq)
4. Enjoy!