Use "less" with colors 🎨
I often find myself frustrated when using "less" to consult big amounts of data and I lose all the colours that allows for syntax highlighting. Well, not anymore!
If you want to keep the colors while using jq combined with less for big documents you can:
cat file.json | jq -C | less -r
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-C instructs jq to keep the colors even when piping -r instructs less to interpret the colors
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