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Python pretty print JSON command line
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Hi, today we would like to show you how to pretty print JSON using python from command line level.
Quick solution:
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echo '{"id": 2, "name": "Tom", "age": 25}' | python -m json.toolPractical example:
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[root]# echo '{"id": 2, "name": "Tom", "age": 25}' | python -m json.tool2
{3
"age": 25,4
"id": 2,5
"name": "Tom"6
}In above example we can use: python -m json.tool
We use echo command to print our JSON and we pass it to python json tool.
If we want to save our pretty printed JSON to file we just need to redirect output to file.
In order to do that we can use below commnad as an example:
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echo '{"id": 2, "name": "Tom", "age": 25}' | python -m json.tool > pretty-json.txtPractical example:
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[root]# echo '{"id": 2, "name": "Tom", "age": 25}' | python -m json.tool > pretty-json.txt2
[root]# ls -al3
total 44
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 91 Oct 30 13:23 .5
dr-xr-xr-x. 19 root root 255 Oct 28 17:58 ..6
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 50 Oct 30 13:23 pretty-json.txt7
[root]# cat pretty-json.txt8
{9
"age": 25,10
"id": 2,11
"name": "Tom"12
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cat /home/my_json_file.json | python -m json.tool
