A bash function to pretty print a file or cbor-encoded data.

print_cbor.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# add to ~/.bashrc or similar 
#
# usage:
#
# > cbor_print /path/to/my/file.cbor

function cbor_print() { 
    # pretty print the contents of a file of cbor-encoded data
    if python -c 'import cbor'; then
        python -c "import cbor; from pprint import pprint; pprint((cbor.load(open('$1'))))";
        
    else
        echo "Error: requires the python cbor package eg."
        echo "  pip install cbor"
    fi
}