Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard

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• I like the version where it throws the error. That way I will realize I might not have copied the right JSON (or forgotten to copy)
  by nullgeo
• I set up my Linux on WSL to use 'pbpaste' and 'pbcopy' as shorthand’s for the long and hard to remember native commands.

  On mobile, but I believe for one of them on WSL is something like 'paste.exe'

  by wodenokoto
• I have this as a bash script and a some similar bash and python scripts for converting between python's print(my_dict) and json, or to run some python (mostly the dicts) through black.

  The j2p is pretty self-evident if you know any python, and the only trick to p2j was knowing `ast.literal_eval(input_str)`.

  by lkbm
• Should be print(repr(my_dict)) in case my_dict is actually a string, or you'd have an injection attack
  by megagpt1
• I do a lot of this and `pbpaste | sed s/^ // | pbcopy` and things like that. It just fits my brain better. What's nice about raycast as a macOS pasteboard manager is that whatever you last selected via Cmd-Shift-V is the output of `pbpaste`. I'm not 100% sure how that is affected by copying images though.
  by 1-more
• I have a similar alias for borkdude’s ‘jet’ tool.

  The extra nice thing about jet is you can convert json into edn, then pipe it into an inline babashka repl where you can inspect the object with all the power of clojure. It is super duper nice for quickly looking through hunks (even huge hunks) of json. You can sum things up, filter through thousands of elements, generate a json schema with malli, whatever you want!

  by chamomeal
• A universal tool (well, since I use Windows, a Windows tool) to modify the clipboard would be cool.

  So, copy text to clipboard, press a hotkey to popup the menu, and it'll offer options depending on the detected text. For example changing the clipboard contents to prettified (if it detects JSON, XML, HTML), or formatting a number back and forth (e.g. working with SSN's out of numerical DB entries when they prefer AAA-GG-SSSS).

  by netsharc
• Loved it! I made this version for `fish` and `wl-clipboard`:

      function clipboard-format-json
          # Inspired by https://chris48s.github.io/blogmarks/posts/2021/jsontidy/
          if set -l formatted "$(wl-paste | jq '.')"
              wl-copy $formatted
          end
      end
  

  By saving it to .config/fish/functions/clipboard-format-json.fish, it should immediately work
  by bilkow
• There is also: - xq for xml - yq for yaml
  by dpflan
• yq can do a lot more than just yaml:

  > yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, HCL and properties processor

  by dividedbyzero
• you can use xmllint for xml via xmllint —-xpath

  It’s great as it is included by default in RHEL/Fedora

  by akdev1l
• I wrote uq specifically for urls https://github.com/mcoliver/uq
  by mcoliver
• Lovely little alias, but I much prefer fracjson[0] pretty printing to jq, so I might go with that instead!

  [0]: https://github.com/j-brooke/FracturedJson

  by OskarS
• I use similar approach for fixing up clipboard contents with

    tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/\t/ /g; s/  */ /g'
  

  But also I switched to xsel at one point, as xclip doesn't seem to deal as well with unicode. It could be xclip has been fixed since then, though.
  by _flux
• /\ \ */ is the same as / +/, but if you only want to replace 2+ spaces and leave the single spaces alone, then what you really want is /\ \ +/.

  Edit: had to escape the spaces because HN ate my spaces.

  by CamJN
• I think kde plasma's clipboard tool is quite underrated for this type of thing too. you add something similar as an action, then you get a little popup format button whenever you copy any json. I use it for all sorts of similar things
  by briaoeuidhtns