---
title: "Formatting JSON Output with jq"
date: 2021-04-27T17:06:51+07:00
translationKey: json-output-format
categories: [software, guide]
tags: [bash, cli, json, jq, less]
---

TIL: Syntax-highlighted JSON output

If you have some command that return (long) JSON, you can view it formatted
with color with: 

```bash
<command> | jq -C | less -r
```