I've always struggled to find good uses for fzf, but I just saw this cool one on hacker news for using fzf to quickly test out jq expressions:

echo '' | fzf --preview 'jq {q} < filename.json'

it live updates the results as you type!

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@b0rk I had to dig in — here’s a good video showing it working :
youtu.be/qgG5Jhi_Els

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