Unix shell pretty-print JSON in unix shell

unix_pretty_print

#
# Use JSON.stringify
#

$ node -e "console.log(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(process.argv[1]), null, '\t'));" \
  '{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}'
  
$ node -e "console.log(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(require('fs') \
      .readFileSync(process.argv[1])), null, 4));"  myjson.json   
      
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#      
# With Python 2.6+
# [for convenience you can make an alias] alias prettyjson='python -m json.tool'
#

$ echo '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2"}' | python -m json.tool

$ python -m json.tool my_json.json