Quick CLI Utils

#utilities #quick_hack

Format Huge JSON File

When IDE doesn't support the formatting of a file that is huge we can use the below python command to get it formatted

python3 -m json.tool unformatted.json > formatted.json

Finding Duplicate records based on certain attributes in JSON

Say you have a huge record in JSON, and you want to do a quick check to find duplicate records using certain fields in JSON's Object Array

jq '.[] | .email' data.json | sort | uniq -d