---
name: "jsoncat"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libjson-wheel-ocaml-dev"
version: "1.0.6-2+b10"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/jsoncat"
---

# jsoncat(1)

Display JSON data

## NAME

jsoncat - Display JSON data

## SYNOPSIS

**jsoncat \[options\] file**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

This manual page documents briefly the **jsoncat** command.

## OPTIONS

- **-help, --help**

  Show help about options

- **-big**

  Whether to accept large ints and represent them as strings

- **-comments**

  Whether to allow C-style comments

- **-compact**

  Minimize the size of the output

- **-test**

  Some benchmarks

- **-time**

  Show execution times of parsing and printing

## AUTHOR

jsoncat was written by Martin Jambon \<martin\_jambon@emailuser.net\>

This manual page was written by Romain Beauxis \<toots@rastageeks.org\>, for the Debian project  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.