How to change tab width when converting to JSON in Powershell

Question

I am creating a JSON in Powershell and I want to set a custom tab width when building it (instead of the default 4 white spaces I want to set only 2 white spaces).

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Answer 1

Here is a simple method:

$data_json | convertto-json -depth 100 |
    foreach-object {$_ -replace "(?m)  (?<=^(?:  )*)", "`t" } |
    set-content 'output.json'

The foreach-object catches if you pass more than one object to ConvertTo-JSON.

Change the "`t" to what ever you want to do with the indent.