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Here’s a Bash one-liner to minify JSON in the current contents of the clipboard and
replace the clipboard contents with the minified JSON:
xclip -selection clipboard -o | python3 -c "import sys;import json;print(json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()),separators=(\",\",\":\")))" | tee >(xclip -selection clipboard)
The equivalent on Mac is:
pbpaste | python3 -c "import sys;import json;print(json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()),separators=(\",\",\":\")))" | pbcopy
To set it as an alias in Linux (mcj for “minify clipboard json”):
alias mcj='xclip -selection clipboard -o | python3 -c "import sys;import json;print(json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()),separators=(\",\",\":\")))" | tee >(xclip -selection clipboard)'
Then you can copy some JSON, run mcj, and then paste the minified JSON back
from the clipboard, e.g.
{
"this": "is some json"
}
The three clipboard JSON manipulation aliases I have set up are:
alias jec='xclip -selection clipboard -o | python3 -c "import sys;import json;print(json.dumps(sys.stdin.read().strip()))" | tee >(xclip -selection clipboard)'
alias pcj='xclip -selection clipboard -o | python3 -m json.tool | tee >(xclip -selection clipboard)'
alias mcj='xclip -selection clipboard -o | python3 -c "import sys;import json;print(json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()),separators=(\",\",\":\")))" | tee >(xclip -selection clipboard)'
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Minify JSON clipboard contents back to clipboard with Bash and Python
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