The equivalent is called `textview` which is a built-in which tries to be a bit more intelligent than `less` with regard to file-types. The default viewer, whi

The equivalent is called `textview` which is a built-in which tries to be a bit more intelligent than `less` with regard to file-types. The default viewer, which sort of runs at the end of every pipeline is called `autoview`. Now.. autoview should be calling textview in the cases where the pipeline detects a large text value. It is possible that you're not exactly running a pipeline. For instance: If you run: cat big.log it is not running a pipeline, just an external command. If you run: open big.log you're invoking nushell's mechanism for creating a pipeline sourced by the contents of big.log. You should also notice that textview is invoked, because there should be a pager. Alternatively, you can choose to create a pipeline by pipe-ing the output of cat big.log into something. If you pipe it to textview you should see the same result: cat big.log | textview Hope that helps!