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Jq doesn't highlight Docker inspect output

When executing docker-machine inspect command, instead of the expected highlighted version of JSON piped into jq:

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I'm seeing the following plain output (in cmd or ConEmu):

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Not sure what needs to be done to enable proper json highlighting.

This happens on Windows 10 machine on which jq ver. 1.5 was installed via Chocolatey:

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Solution

  • Apparently, this is an idiosyncrasy of jq Windows implementation, forcing the color output with -C option, as hinted by several commenters above, resolved the issue for me:

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