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2039 points Gadiguibou | 1 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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klausa ◴[27 Jun 23 12:42 UTC] No.36491947[source]▶
`pbcopy` and `pbpaste` are one of my most-loved in the list.

Dealing with some minified json, switching to iTerm, doing `pbpaste | json_pp | pbcopy` and having a clean output is _so_ nice.

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omginternets ◴[27 Jun 23 13:16 UTC] No.36492265[source]▶
If I had a nickel for each `cat foo.json | jq | pbcopy`, I'd be a rich man :)
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maleldil ◴[27 Jun 23 13:58 UTC] No.36492862[source]▶
That's a useless use of cat. You can use `jq . foo.json | pbcopy` or `jq < foo.json | pbcopy`.
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nojs ◴[27 Jun 23 15:50 UTC] No.36494558[source]▶
The “useless cat” meme needs to die. Everyone is aware that most commands accept a file argument, but looking up the arguments and their ordering is annoying and using cat for things like this is just fine.
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1. epcoa ◴[27 Jun 23 16:15 UTC] No.36494899[source]▶
The redirect always works though - that is not a program argument, that is handled by the shell. Apparently not everyone is aware of that.