Colourise ruby syntax from 'cat' output

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I want to be able to get colours for Ruby (or C# or F#) in the shells.

wirble does it nicely with IRB, but I want to be able to do:

> cat rakefile.rb | colorize

Does somebody know how I could do this? I know that github's language parsers are OSS - could they be used to read lines one by one and colourise them?

three · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-15 18:09:56Z

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pygments does that for you: http://pygments.org/docs/cmdline/

answered Feb 15, 2012 at 18:09

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p0deje Over a year ago

and you can just make an alias in you .bashrc like described in ralfebert.de/blog/tools/cat_syntax_highlighting

Henrik Over a year ago

That just does this:

xyz@ISOMORPHISM /d/code/oss/lib (dev) $ cat rubyfile.rb | pygmentize Usage: c:\Python27\Scripts\pygmentize-script.py [-l <lexer> ...

, i.e. it's not reading anything.

Mladen Jablanović · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-15 18:35:04Z

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You can try source-highlight as well.

answered Feb 15, 2012 at 18:35

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