Formatting JSON files

Oftentimes you have JSON files which need to be formatted and checked for validity. You can use the following ways of going about it.

1. Using Python

cat file.json | python -mjson.tool > newfile.json

2. Uing jsonlint

Install jsonlint using 'sudo apt-get install  python-demjson'

Then use the command 

jsonlint -fv file.json > newfile.json