jless
jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
INSTALLATION
$ pacman -S jless$ zypper install jless$ apk add jless$ nix-shell -p jless$ brew install jless$ cargo install jless$ pkg install jless
DESCRIPTION
jless is an interactive, terminal-based JSON viewer written in Rust designed for exploring and navigating structured data.
It features expand/collapse data tree controls, Vim-inspired movement keybindings, and full regex-based search.
It cleans up JSON display by omitting redundant quotes and trailing commas, making large documents easy to inspect.
DETAILS
- Repository
- PaulJuliusMartinez/jless (2026-09-07)
- Website
jless.io
- Author
- PaulJuliusMartinez
- License
- MIT
- Category
- Data Processing
- Language
- Rust
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS
- Version
- v0.9.0 (2023-07-17)
- Repo Age
- 5 years old
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