A few solutions to choose from:
json json is a fast CLI tool for working with JSON. It is a single-file node.js script with no external deps (other than node.js itself).
$ echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | json
{
"type": "Bar",
"id": "1",
"title": "Foo"
}
Require:
# npm install -g json
json_pp: command utility available in Linux systems for JSON decoding/encoding
echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | json_pp -json_opt pretty,canonical
{
"id" : "1",
"title" : "Foo",
"type" : "Bar"
}
You may want to keep the -json_opt pretty,canonical argument for predictable ordering.
jq: lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. It is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies.
echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | jq '.'
{
"type": "Bar",
"id": "1",
"title": "Foo"
}
The simplest jq program is the expression ., which takes the input and produces it unchanged as output.
For additional jq options check the manual
python yq yq: Command-line YAML/XML/TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML, XML, TOML documents
$ echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | yq
{
"type": "Bar",
"id": "1",
"title": "Foo"
}
The go version go yq doesn't work here
With xidel Command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages or JSON-APIs, using CSS, XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, JSONiq or pattern matching. It can also create new or transformed XML/HTML/JSON documents.
$ echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | xidel -e '$json'
{
"type": "Bar",
"id": "1",
"title": "Foo"
}
with python:
echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | python -m json.tool
{
"id": "1",
"title": "Foo",
"type": "Bar"
}
with nodejs and bash:
echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | node -e "console.log( JSON.stringify( JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync(0) ), 0, 1 ))"
{
"type": "Bar",
"id": "1",
"title": "Foo"
}
