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JSON to NDJSON

NDJSON is a convenient format for storing or streaming structured data that may be processed one record at a time.

  • Each line is a valid JSON value
  • Line separator is ‘\n’

1. Convert JSON to NDJSON?

cat test.json | jq -c '.[]' > testNDJSON.json

With this simple line of code, you can convert and save files in NDJSON format.

Note: jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Source: https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/json-parsing-error-how-to-load-json-into-bigquery-successfully-using-ndjson-2b7d94616bcb

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jq can choke on very large files, and be slow. For these situations I made json2nd.

Thanks for sharing @draxil !

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