Sometimes it is necessary to view json data in the terminal environment, such as when using the curl debugging interface. The directly seen json data is similar to this:
$ echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' {"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}
If you want to format and display json data in a more intuitive way, you can use the standard library json provided by python3 to achieve:
$ echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | python3 -m json.tool { "foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum" }
To make it easier to use this tool, you can set an alias for it:
Write the following to ~/.bashrc or another of your shell configuration files:
alias pjson='python3 -m json.tool'
Execute source ~/.bashrc
Then you can use it in this shell like this:
$ echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | pjson { "foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum" }
references
- How can I pretty-print JSON in a shell script?
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json— JSON Encoder and Decoder By Python
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