shell - How can I pretty-print a JSON file from the command line?

Question

I've a file with a sequence of JSON element:

{ element0: "lorem", value0: "ipsum" }
{ element1: "lorem", value0: "ipsum" }
...
{ elementN: "lorem", value0: "ipsum" }

Is there a shell script to format JSON to display file content in a readable form?

I've seen this post, and I think is a good starting point!

My idea is to iterate rows in the file and then:

while read row; do echo ${row} | python -mjson.tool; done < "file_name"

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Answer 1

Pipe the results from the file into the python json tool 2.6 onwards

python -m json.tool < 'file_name'