title: How to see a large JSON file pretty printed on Ubuntu?
body: <p>I would like to hear your suggestions on how to handle a large (40MB) JSON file on Ubuntu. I would like to see it pretty printed in <em>vim</em> or <em>gedit</em> or any other editor. One can find numerious tutorials on how to <a href="http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/json-prettifier-for-gedit/" rel="noreferrer">prettify the JSON</a>, however, they do not have to deal with large input. I also imagine I could pipe the data through <a href="http://pygments.org/" rel="noreferrer">pygments</a> or any other syntax highlighter. I am curious to hearing your ideas.</p>
  
  <p>Example download:</p>
  
  <pre><code>wget -O large-dataset.json http://data.wien.gv.at/daten/wfs?service=WFS&amp;request=GetFeature&amp;version=1.1.0&amp;typeName=ogdwien:BAUMOGD&amp;srsName=EPSG:4326&amp;outputFormat=json
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please mind the download size!</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> I found out that <a href="http://meldmerge.org/" rel="noreferrer">meld</a> is working somewhat. The application does not load the whole file at once which would block the user interface. Instead it sequentially reads the file content.</p>