JSON-GLIB-FORMAT(1)

💖 JSON-GLIB-FORMAT 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for json-glib-format, and it lives in the text processing section of the manual pages, iykyk. it's the JSON Formatting Tool. that's literally the whole vibe. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

json-glib-format — the JSON Formatting Tool, aka your new bestie for making ugly JSON look cute 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

json-glib-format [OPTIONS...] <FILE> [<FILE>...]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea 🫖 json-glib-format gives you a super simple command line interface for formatting JSON data. it reads a list of URIs, applies the formatting rules you specified, and then outputs the formatted JSON to the standard output — or to a file if that's more your vibe.

the resources it's gonna operate on? those are the ones you hand it in the FILE argument. no FILE, no formatting, periodt.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — prints a help message and then dips. classic. 💅
• --output=FILE — redirects the output into FILE instead of just spilling it onto the standard output. very "I have a designated folder for this" of you.
• -p, --prettify — prettifies the output by adding spaces and indentation. this one is iconic for making JSON data actually readable to human eyes 👀 at the expense of its size. bigger file, prettier file, that's the trade, no cap.
• --indent-spaces=SPACES — changes how many spaces get used to indent the JSON data, from the default of 2. > heads up bestie: this one is only considered if you also used --prettify. otherwise it's just sitting there, ignored, minding its own business 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• JSON-GLib <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/json-glib>
• json-glib-validate(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Emmanuele Bassi

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so yeah, that's the whole page, and the manual itself is JSON-GLIB-FORMAT(1) — that's the source/version tag and the whole reason we're here. go forth and prettify responsibly, bestie 💜 ✨🎀