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As an improvement to my version with Python or with Ruby, with tools like jq now being widely used, how do we minify a JSON string?
Given:
{
"key": [
123,
456
],
"key2": "value"
}
We can override the --indent:
% jq --indent 0 . < a.json
{"key":[123,456],"key2":"value"}
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