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Comment by kissgyorgy | Hacker News Reader

You mean?

    cat json | jq | less

I checked the code, it's concatenating the output with newlines. Not necessary at all.

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If you want to preserve colors:

    jq . -C | less -R

No, that's not what it does.

To be fair, the readme doesn't explain it well. This is a GUI app that allows you to see the jq results in real time. Here [1] is a video.

[1] https://gfycat.com/oddtartbrahmanbull

Yay, useless use of cat. I think you mean

  jq . < json | less

Sorry for being pedantic. Moving on.

Yes, you can re-write it without using cat, but many people (including me) think it's clearer to read from left-to-right. Plus the mixing of sending the file through stdin and then using a pipe always makes my brain pause.

I just personally find that using cat as the first part of the pipeline makes everything easier.

Plus, if you're going to argue against useless use of cat, there's also no reason to send the file in through stdin. jq can read the file directly.

Agreed. Keeping the source on the far left (whether cat or curl) just makes things easiest to follow.

You can put `<json` on the left no problem.

(But it makes the pipeline harder to edit so actually I have no problem with `cat JSON`)

The input redirection pipe is not necessary either:

  jq . json | less

I think you mean

    < json jq . | less

It's not useless if it makes it much more readable :)

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