This jq module provides some low-level functions for colorizing the output.
It is intended to be used in conjunction with jq's raw output mode, which does not do any coloring on its own.
Grab ./colors.jq and put it in jq's include path.
The following snippet assumes that you cloned this repository in the current directory:
echo '{"test": "✅ this should be green, bold and blinking"}' | \
jq -L "$PWD/colors.jq" -r '
import "colors" as c;
c::blink(c::bold(c::green(.test)))'For your convenience here's a little shell (zsh only!) function that alleviates the pain of importing the module at every run:
jqcolor () {
local help
zparseopts -D -E h=help -help=help
if [[ -n "$help" ]]
then
jq --help
return
fi
local filter="import \"colors\" as c; ${@[-1]}"
# Remove last arg (ie the original filter)
set -- ${@[1,-2]}
jq -L "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/jq" $@ $filter
}Once loaded you can:
echo '{"test": "make this red"}' | \
jqcolor -r "c::red(.test)"