pipe-pq-with-colors-into-less
Created on April 20, 2026
commandline
You can pipe the output of jq to less and show colors with jq -C and less -R.
cat data.json | jq -C | less -R
cat data.json | jq --color-output | less --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS
# small -r works too
cat data.json | jq -C | less -r
cat data.json | jq --color-output | less --raw-control-chars