show-json

Extract and show JSON data in various formats

Usage: show-json [options] [filename]

Options:
    -c, --columns       Columns to display
    -h, --help          Print usage
    -r, --root          Root path in input

Example usage

# cat sample.json | show-json
┏━━━━━┳━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ age ┃ id ┃ name          ┃ occupation.name     ┃ occupation.since ┃
┣━━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃ 37  ┃ 1  ┃ Fred Williams ┃ Plumber             ┃ 1996             ┃
┃ 40  ┃ 2  ┃ Joe Smith     ┃ Accountant          ┃ 1998             ┃
┃ 50  ┃ 3  ┃ Mary Simpson  ┃ Marketing executive ┃ 1989             ┃
┗━━━━━┻━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

# cat sample.json | show-json -c name,age,occupation.name
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ name          ┃ age ┃ occupation.name     ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃ Fred Williams ┃ 37  ┃ Plumber             ┃
┃ Joe Smith     ┃ 40  ┃ Accountant          ┃
┃ Mary Simpson  ┃ 50  ┃ Marketing executive ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

# cat sample.json | show-json -c 'name as Full Name, age as Age'
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━┓
┃ Full Name     ┃ Age ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━┫
┃ Fred Williams ┃ 37  ┃
┃ Joe Smith     ┃ 40  ┃
┃ Mary Simpson  ┃ 50  ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━┛