Syntax highlighting/colorizing cat

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I’d recommend pygmentize from the python package python-pygments. You may want to define the following handy alias (unless you use ccat from the ccrypt package).

alias ccat="pygmentize -g"

Syntax highlighted cat output using pygmentize

And if you want line numbers:

alias ccat="pygmentize -g -O style=colorful,linenos=1"

Add one of these above commands to ~/.bash_aliases for permanent effect

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