jsonplus-cli

Command-line interface for JSONPlus - Swiss knife for JSON operations.

Installation

npm install -g jsonplus-cli

Commands

| Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | validate | Validate JSON and report errors with line/column | | format | Pretty-print JSON with customizable indentation | | minify | Remove all whitespace from JSON | | stringify | Escape special characters and wrap as a JSON string | | parse | Parse a stringified JSON string back to formatted JSON | | sort | Sort object keys alphabetically |

Usage

jsonplus <command> [options] [file]
cat file.json | jsonplus <command> [options]

Examples

# Validate
jsonplus validate input.json

# Format with 4-space indent
jsonplus format --indent 4 input.json

# Format with tabs
jsonplus format --tabs input.json

# Minify and write to file
jsonplus minify input.json -o output.json

# Sort keys descending
jsonplus sort --desc input.json

# Sort top-level keys only (no recursion)
jsonplus sort --no-recursive input.json

# Pipe from stdin
echo '{"b":1,"a":2}' | jsonplus sort
cat data.json | jsonplus minify

# Stringify / parse round-trip
jsonplus stringify input.json
jsonplus parse stringified.json

Options

| Option | Description | |--------|-------------| | --indent <n> | Indentation size in spaces (default: 2) | | --tabs | Use tabs instead of spaces | | --desc | Sort in descending order (Z-A) | | --no-recursive | Don't sort nested objects recursively | | --no-newline | Don't add trailing newline | | -o, --output <file> | Write output to file (default: stdout) | | -h, --help | Show help message | | -v, --version | Show version number |

License

MIT - see LICENSE for details.