Syntax highlighting/colorizing cat
问题 Is there a method to colorize the output of cat , the way grep does. For grep , in most consoles it displays a colored output highlighting the searched keywords. Otherwise, you can force it by calling grep --color Is there a generic way to color the output of any program according to your personal choice. From what I understand, the program itself is not responsible for the colors. It is the shell. I am using the default shell in FreeBSD 5.2.1 which looks like it has never seen colors since