I would like to pretty print a json string I copied from an API call which contains escaped double quotes.
Similar to this:
"{\"name\":\"Hans\", \"Hobbies\":[\"Car\",\"Swimming\"]}"
However when I execute pbpaste | jq "." the result is not changed and is still in one line.
I guess the problem are the escaped double quotes, but I don’t know how to tell jq to remove them if possible, or any other workaround.
>Solution :
What you have is a JSON string which happens to contain a JSON object. You can decode the contents of the string with the fromjson function.
$ pbpaste | jq "."
"{\"name\":\"Hans\", \"Hobbies\":[\"Car\",\"Swimming\"]}"
$ pbpaste | jq "fromjson"
{
"name": "Hans",
"Hobbies": [
"Car",
"Swimming"
]
}