How can I minify JSON in a shell script?

Question

I've been looking for a way to uglify some JSON while in my bash console. This help using it afterward in another command (for example, to pass json inline to httpie)

Giving:

{
    "foo": "lorem",
    "bar": "ipsum"
}

I want to obtain:

{"foo":"lorem","bar":"ipsum"}

_{NOTE: this question is intentionnaly greatly inspired by it's pretty-print counterpart. However, googling for bash minify json didn't give me a proper result, hence this questions for the minify/uglify.}

Answer 1

You can use jq -c (compact) option.

jq -c . < input.json