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

Install yajl-tools with the command below:

sudo apt-get install yajl-tools

then,

echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | json_reformat