Living in the Shell; jq (JSON) [LS#4]

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jq 🧹

JSON formatter/prettifier.

🏠 https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
📗 https://github.com/stedolan/jq

Installation (on Debian)

sudo apt-get install jq

Format/prettify

echo -n '{"who":["me","you"],"when":"now"}' | jq

{
  "who": [
    "me",
    "you"
  ],
  "when": "now"
}

Indentation with tab --tab

echo -n '{"who":["me","you"],"when":"now"}' | jq --tab

Compact -c

cat << EOF | jq -c
{
  "who": [
    "me",
    "you"
  ],
  "when": "now"
}
EOF

{"who":["me","you"],"when":"now"}

Sort keys -S

echo -n '{"z":"z","a":"a"}' | jq -S

{
  "a": "a",
  "z": "z"
}

Uncolorize output (monochrome) -M

echo -n '{"who":"me","when":"now"}' | jq -M

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