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A terminal case of Linux

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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.

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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":