How to see a large JSON file pretty printed on Ubuntu? [closed]

Answer 1

jq is a lightweight commandline JSON processor and works well! for this you need to install jq with the command below(if you are using apt package manager).

sudo apt-get install jq

Below command will pretty json to a new file.

 jq '.' non-pretty.json > pretty.json

Also we can filter the json with jq, I found it to be very helpful while working with large geojson files, for instance below command will save only properties of first feature.

jq '.features[0].properties' geojson_file.json > pretty.json

Hope this will be helpful!