Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard

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)`.

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)

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).

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

Cool idea! I think it would look better as a function than an alias, but that doesn’t matter much.

There is also: - xq for xml - yq for yaml

I didn't even know such a tool existed until Opus used it.

Not mine, just very useful

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