What are good CLI tools for JSON?

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General Problem

Though I may be diagnosing the root cause of an event, determining how many users it affected, or distilling timing logs in order to assess the perform

Answer 1

One way you could do is to convert it to XML. Following uses two perl modules (JSON and XML::Simple) to do fly-by conversion:

cat test.json | perl -MJSON -MXML::Simple -e 'print XMLout(decode_json(do{local$/;<>}),RootName=>"json")'

which for your example json ends up as: