An useful alias to enable simple pretty printing of json data with builtin python module.

python_json_pretty_print.sh

# Add alias to bash shell
echo "alias json='python -mjson.tool'" >> ~/.bashrc

# Add alias for zsh shell
echo "alias json='python -mjson.tool'" >> ~/.zshrc

python_json_pretty_print_output.sh

% echo "{\"array\":[1,2,3],\"boolean\":true}" | json
{
    "array": [
        1,
        2,
        3
    ],
    "boolean": true
}