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

vimcat is single-file (shell script) and works good:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4325

Last update is from December 2013. Hint: you can force file type recognition by vimcat -c "set ft=".