Today I Learnt (TIL)
To format/ pretty-print a one-line JSON file, you can use python json.tool module.
For example:
python -m json.tool instafeed.json > instafeed_formatted.json
Piping can also work:
echo {name: "Tomy", gender: "M"} | python -m json.tool
If you’re an Amazon Linux or Mac OS user, this command is very handy as both of them come with Python 2.6+ installed by default.
Hence, it’s recommended to alias it:
alias prettyjson='python -m json.tool'
Speaking of aliases, perhaps I should share my alias list (in Mac and Amazon EC2) in a future blog post. Please remind me in case I forget. :)
Source:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-can-i-pretty-print-json