Force JSON Output to a File

Redirected output saves response body bytes by default. Choose -o json when a script needs Restish to render decoded structured data as one JSON document. --rsh-collect matters when pagination is involved: it asks Restish to build one logical document before writing the file.

restish api.rest.sh/images --rsh-collect -o json > images.json

The file is pretty-printed by default. Add --rsh-print=b when compact JSON is more useful:

restish api.rest.sh/images --rsh-collect -o json --rsh-print=b > images.json

Open the file with jq, an editor, or another tool that expects one complete JSON value. For line-oriented pipelines, prefer -o ndjson instead; the Output guide explains document versus record formats.

Related: Output, Output Defaults.