---
name: "pyjson5"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-json5"
version: "0.10.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pyjson5"
---

# pyjson5(1)

formatter for JSON5 documents

## NAME

pyjson5 - formatter for JSON5 documents

## SYNOPSIS

**json5 \[-h\] \[-V\] \[-c STR\] \[--as-json\] \[--indent INDENT\] \[--quote-keys\]\[--no-quote-keys\] \[--trailing-commas\] \[--no-trailing-commas\]\[FILE\]**

## DESCRIPTION

A tool to parse and pretty-print JSON5.

## OPTIONS

### positional arguments:

- FILE

  optional file to read JSON5 document from; if not specified or "-", will read from stdin instead

### options:

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **-V**, **--version**

  print the version and exit

- **-c** STR

  inline json5 string to read instead of reading from a file

- **--as-json**

  output as JSON (same as **--quote-keys** **--no-trailingcommas**)

- **--indent** INDENT

  amount to indent each line (default is 4 spaces)

- **--quote-keys**

  quote all object keys

- **--no-quote-keys**

  don't quote object keys that are identifiers (this is the default)

- **--trailing-commas**

  add commas after the last item in multi-line objects and arrays (this is the default)

- **--no-trailing-commas**

  do not add commas after the last item in multi-line lists and objects

-

  ## EXAMPLES

- $ echo '{foo:"bar"}' \| pyjson5

  -

  {

-

  foo: 'bar',

-

  }

- $ echo '{foo:"bar"}' \| pyjson5 --as-json

  {

-

  "foo": "bar"

-

  }