Zsh function to pretty print json in shell
I found Luis Nell trick to easily pretty print json in shell or code editor very usefull, so I decided to port it into my zsh config as a function.
As it might be usefull to someone else, here's the code. Might be compatible with bash and other shells with a few adjustements.
function pjson {
if [ $# -gt 0 ];
then
for arg in $@
do
if [ -f $arg ];
then
less $arg | python -m json.tool
else
echo "$arg" | python -m json.tool
fi
done
fi
}It can whether print from a string cmdline arg or a file, and arguments can be mixed.
pjson '{"test": "test"}'
or
pjson myjsonfile.json
or even
pjson '{"test": "test"}' myjsonfile.json will work.
Written by Oleiade
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I hacked a simple nodejs module for doing precisely that https://github.com/tralamazza/prettyson
over 1 year ago
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