Colorize jq output with less
When you try to less the output of jq command like this: < demo.json jq . | less, the output is not colored...
You have to use the -C flag of jq and the -r flag of less:
< demo.json jq -C . | less -r
will give the following output:
{
"glossary": {
"title": "example glossary",
"GlossDiv": {
"title": "S",
"GlossList": {
"GlossEntry": {
"ID": "SGML",
"SortAs": "SGML",
"GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",
"Acronym": "SGML",
"Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
"GlossDef": {
"para": "A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.",
"GlossSeeAlso": [
"GML",
"XML"
]
},
"GlossSee": "markup"
}
}
}
}
}