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A terminal case of Linux
Has this ever happened to you?
You want to look at a JSON file in your terminal, so you pipe it into jq so you can look at it with colors and stuff.
That’s a useless use of cat.
…oh hey cool bear. No warm-up today huh.
Sure, fine, okay, I’ll read the darn man page for jq… okay it takes
a “filter” and then some files. And the filter we want is.. . which, just
like files, means “the current thing”: