jless

jless is a command-line JSON viewer. Use it as a replacement for whatever combination of less, jq, cat and your editor you currently use for viewing JSON files. It is written in Rust and can be installed as a single standalone binary. Clean syntax highlighted display of JSON data, omitting quotes around object keys, closing object and array delimiters, and trailing commas. Expand and collapse objects and arrays so you can see both the high- and low-level structure of the data.

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Clean syntax highlighted display of JSON data, omitting quotes around object keys, closing object and array delimiters, and trailing commas
Expand and collapse objects and arrays so you can see both the high- and low-level structure of the data
A wealth of vim-inspired movement commands for efficiently moving around and viewing data
Full regex-based search for finding exactly the data you're looking for
jless currently supports macOS and Linux. Windows support is planned
On Linux systems, X11 libraries are needed to build clipboard access if building from source

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