You Need To Start Using The jq Tool For All Your JSON Needs

Format and filter JSON in your terminal

Mike Cronin
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readJul 20, 2020

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The jq command line tool is definitely one of my favorite finds. If you’ve ever “prettified” JSON by copying it into VScode, I’m about to save you like 6 seconds by showing how to format (and even filter!) right in the terminal.

Download page, but on mac it’s easiest to…

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