sfjson is a simple tool that reads JSON-like data from stdin, formats and indents it and writes
the result to standard out.
Contrary to generally recommended tools like jq or python -mjson.tool this program does not
perform any form of validation to ensure that the input is valid JSON.
Instead formatting is done on a best effort basis following basic rules.
The benefit of this is that the output will be consistent even for incomplete or invalid data and the tool will not refuse to do the job if it doesn't understand it.
This is in comparison to many beautifiers and pretty-printing solutions that fall over because they do not understand why there is a trailing comma at the end.
This is a tool for when you have a condensed (i.e. a single line) of JSON that is several pages long and you just need to make parts of it more readable while investigating something.
It works by adding line breaks and indentation after square brackets, curly braces and commas while ignoring escaped characters as well as leaving text encapsulated in double or single quotes as-is.
$ git clone https://github.com/bakkeby/sfjson.git
$ cd sfjson
$ sudo make install
$ sfjson
sfjson is available under an MIT license. See the LICENSE file.