From 9b0af44766d2a2cc61ae0142ac3ec9f0bed75674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Bynens <mathias@qiwi.be>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:09:49 +0100
Subject: Allow piping to the `json` function

---
 .functions | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to '.functions')

diff --git a/.functions b/.functions
index b5270b3..a6a576d 100644
--- a/.functions
+++ b/.functions
@@ -9,9 +9,17 @@ function httpcompression() {
 	encoding="$(curl -LIs -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5 Gecko' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,compress,sdch' "$1" | grep '^Content-Encoding:')" && echo "$1 is encoded using ${encoding#* }" || echo "$1 is not using any encoding"
 }
 
-# Syntax-highlight JSON files
+# Syntax-highlight JSON strings or files
 function json() {
-	python -mjson.tool <<< "$*" | pygmentize -l javascript
+	if [ -p /dev/stdin ]; then
+		# piping, e.g. `echo '{"foo":42}' | json`
+		while read data; do
+			python -mjson.tool <<< "$data" | pygmentize -l javascript
+		done
+	else
+		# e.g. `json '{"foo":42}'`
+		python -mjson.tool <<< "$*" | pygmentize -l javascript
+	fi
 }
 
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