Personally jgrep seems a better choice here curl foo/bar.json | jgrep -n -s 'property' Or even better curl foo/bar.json | jgrep 'status=500' -n -s 'path' ht

Personally jgrep seems a better choice here curl foo/bar.json | jgrep -n -s 'property' Or even better curl foo/bar.json | jgrep 'status=500' -n -s 'path' http://jgrep.org/ http://jgrep.org/