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

just use vim and this vimrc file.

oneliner:

vim -c '1' -c 'set cmdheight=1' -c 'set readonly' -c 'set nomodifiable' -c 'syntax enable' -c 'set guioptions=aiMr' -c 'nmap q :q!' -c 'nmap  ' -c 'nmap  ' -c 'nmap ^V ' "$@" 

nano -v may also be an alternative.