Syntax highlighting/colorizing cat

Question

Is there a method to colorize the output of cat, the way grep does.

For grep, in most consoles it displays a colored output hi

Answer 1

Options:

pygmentize is good. I have an alias:

alias c='pygmentize -g'

but highlight is another widely available alternative is

alias cats='highlight -O ansi --force'

Installation:

You may have to install pygments using one of these:

sudo apt install python-pygments
sudo pip install pygments
sudo easy_install Pygments #for Mac user

and for highlight package which is easily available on all distributions

sudo apt install highlight
sudo yum install highlight

• Bitbucket repo: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main
• GitHub mirror: https://github.com/sglyon/pygments

In Action:

I'm attaching shots for both down below for a good comparison in highlightings

Here is pygmentize in action:

and this is highlight: