Pretty-print stdin

Name

json - pretty-print a JSON file with syntax-coloring and indentation

Synopsis

$ json [options...] [path...]

Description

json pretty-prints a JSON file with syntax-coloring and indentation.

If no path argument is provided stdin is used.

Options

• --help: Display this message
• -i, --indent-size: Size of indentations in spaces
• -q, --query: Dotted query key

Arguments

• path: file to pretty-print

Examples

# Pretty-print stdin
$ cat /sys/kernel/processes | json
# Pretty-print a file
$ json json-data.json
# Pretty-print a file with two spaces per indent
$ json -i 2 json-data.json
# Query data from JSON
$ json -q 1 .config/CommonLocations.json
$ cat /sys/kernel/processes | json -q processes