A pretty-printer for files containing more than one json object.

Overview

Consider the following file:

{"abc": "def"}{"ham": "spam", "numbers": [1, 2, 3]}{"foo": "bar"}

The contents of this file do not constitute a valid json object when taken as a whole. Instead, the file contains a stream of json objects. Jsoncat will pretty-print this file as so:

{
	"abc": "def"
}
{
	"ham": "spam",
	"numbers": [
		1,
		2,
		3
	]
}
{
	"foo": "bar"
}

Installation

pip install jsoncatcmd

Usage

Read from a file:

jsoncat myfile.json

Read from stdin:

cat myfile.json | jsoncat

Read a gzipped json stream:

cat myfile.json.gz | zcat | jsoncat