From 84482aa24dd6c3af62a2f64977e6cd22d918684f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Levy <joshua@cal.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 15:27:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] One-liner to show colored, normalized JSON diffs.

---
 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 77d2444..ff73938 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ A few examples of piecing together commands:
       sort a b b | uniq -u > c   # c is set difference a - b
 ```
 
+- Pretty-print two JSON files, normalizing their syntax, then coloring and paginating the result:
+```
+      diff <(jq --sort-keys . < file1.json) <(jq --sort-keys . < file2.json) | colordiff | less -R
+```
+
 - Use `grep . *` to quickly examine the contents of all files in a directory (so each line is paired with the filename), or `head -100 *` (so each file has a heading). This can be useful for directories filled with config settings like those in `/sys`, `/proc`, `/etc`.