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Page request: jless

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#21,116 opened on Feb 14, 2026

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Description

Command description

A command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.

jless can handle newline-delimited JSON, so feel free to pipe in the output from jq or some dense log files.

jless has a large suite of vim-inspired commands. Commands prefixed by count may be preceded by a number N, which will perform a command a given number of times.

Command details

jless

Documentation

https://jless.io/user-guide

Platform

Common

VCS repository link (e.g. GitHub, GitLab)

https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless

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Contributor guide

Research direction
Add a new page for the jless command following the tldr page format. Refer to existing pages for style.
Tech stack
shell
Domain
documentationcli
Issue type
Documentation
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
1
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Under 1 hour
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
Fresh
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
None
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
90