Elastic Search: Make pretty format as the default

Question

Is there a way to make the JSON output of curl commands Pretty printed by default? That is, without specifying the option of ?pretty=true to the curl URL, is it possible to display the output pretty printed everytime?

Answer 1

I was able to accomplish this by adding a new alias to my .bashrc (or .bash_profile on a mac):

alias pp='python -mjson.tool'

Then, after reloading the .bashrc / .bash_profile configuration by opening a new terminal or by running

$ source ~/.bashrc

you can pipe curl output to the 'pp' alias as follows:

$ curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_search | pp

Source: http://ruslanspivak.com/2010/10/12/pretty-print-json-from-the-command-line/