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

In this question https://superuser.com/questions/602294/is-there-colorizer-utility-that-can-take-command-output-and-colorize-it-accordin grcat/grc tool was recommended as alternative to supercat.

Man of grc and of grcat; it is part of grc package (sources):

grc - frontend for generic colouriser grcat(1)

grcat - read from standard input, colourise it and write to standard output