fth-ship / hicat

Command-line syntax highlighter

hicat 🐱

cat with syntax highlighting. Auto-detects the language via the file extension, or tries to infer it automatically.

hicat index.js

Pipe something to hicat. It will figure out what language it is in.

curl http://site.com | hicat

If hicat fails to detect a language, explicitly pass it -t TYPE.

curl http://site.com | hicat -t xml

Installation

$ npm install -g hicat

Usage:

$ hicat --help

  Usage:
      hicat [options] [file]
      ... | hicat [options]

  Options:
      -h, --help         print usage information
      -v, --version      show version info and exit
      -t, --type TYPE    use a given file type

Thanks

hicat © 2014+, Rico Sta. Cruz. Released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Rico Sta. Cruz with help from contributors.

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