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Hello. I can't pass the "format" option to the CLI format-json. Looks like the code is not ready to handle this:

format-json [format <terse|plain|space|lines|diffy>] path/to/file.json

i.e.

$ ./node_modules/.bin/format-json plain package.json
fs.js:438
  return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode);

JSON is lame enough that it doesn't support comments. The only thing that makes for a bit better readability are empty lines. So I often group properties in my configuration files – like this:

{ "name": "..."
, "version": "..."

, "devDependencies":
  { "cli": "..."
  , "dependencies": "..."

  , "build": "..."
  , "dependencies": "..."
  }
}

format-json swallows these empty lines. Is it possible/reasonable to keep them?

Hi, thanks for this great library. Keeps sanity for JSON files :)

I see you provide a CLI as well as a programmatic API, but I can't find docs for it anywhere. Also running format-json -h or --help is of no help. Have I missed something?