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Posts tagged pcat

BASH> Colorize your ‘cat’ output

Apr07
2011
Written by Scott Rowley

Ok, well thats a bit misleading. We won’t actually be using ‘cat’ but ‘pygmentize’ and its not perfect, but its better than 1 single color

This runs on Debian/Gentoo based Linux systems

apt-get update
apt-get install pygmentize

Once thats been installed what I did was to make an alias in my .profile

alias pcat='pygmentize'

Make sure to reload your .profile if you’ve added your alias

cd ~
. .profile

Example cat and pcat outputs:
Cat OutputPygmentize Output

Posted in BASH - Tagged alias, BASH, cat, pygmentize, ubuntu

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