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Last active September 16, 2019 02:12
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Read JSON from standard input and writes formatted JSON to standard output. Requires Node.js.
#!/usr/bin/env node
// Reads JSON from stdin and writes equivalent
// nicely-formatted JSON to stdout.
var input = '';
process.stdin.resume();
process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
process.stdin.on('data', function (chunk) {
input += chunk;
});
process.stdin.on('end', function () {
var parsedData = JSON.parse(input);
var outputJSON = JSON.stringify(parsedData, null, ' ');
process.stdout.write(outputJSON);
});
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