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Command-line JSON diff (colorized and with normalized key ordering)
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diffjson
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
file1="${1:?
Usage: $(basename $0) file1.json file2.json
Show diff of JSON, normalizing key ordering.
}"
file2="${2:?Missing file2}"
diff <(jq --sort-keys . < "$file1") <(jq --sort-keys . < "$file2") | colordiff | less -R
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