Pretty printing JSON and XML documents
26 Oct 2017 in JSON, Shell, XML
I work many times in command line and here's how I'm pretty printing JSON documents:
# get file contents via cat, curl, wget, etc
cat <path/to/file.json> | python -mjson.tool
You may also use the jq command line utility (using the "." filter in order to pipe the result):
cat <path/to/file.json> | jq "." | less
For XML documents I use xmllint
:
cat <path/to/file.xml> | xmllint --format -
If you have a schema file you can validate the document using something like:
xmllint --noout --schema <path/to/schema.xsd> <path/to/file.xml>