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Very cool tool. It's perfect for the "take a quick look" use-case.

I just downloaded it on MacOS and when I ran it the first time it took a really long time on a one-line JSON which disappointed me but then any subsequent run on anything was fast. I'd completely forgotten about MacOS doing that thing on first run.

Uses the pager for large files automatically etc. Very nice.

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> Uses the pager for large files automatically etc. Very nice.

If you like that, you can also make less behave like cat if the file fits in one screen. You just need to add F to the LESS environment variable. It's very convenient because so many things depend on less.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/less.1.html#:~:tex...

What thing does MacOS do on first run?

It phones home to apple malware servers, among other things: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/2/3.html

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