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Has this ever happened to you?
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Cool bear's hot tip
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":