Command-line tool

jless

brew/jless

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Command-line pager for JSON data

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

cargo install jless

macOS

brew install jless
cargo install jless

Linux

brew install jless
cargo install jless

Open a JSON file

jless path/to/file.json

Read JSON from `stdin`

cat path/to/file.json | jless

Force YAML parsing regardless of file extension

jless --yaml path/to/file

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