cat with syntax highlighting. The language is auto-detected through the file
extension.
hicat index.js
Pipe something to hicat. The language will be inferred from the contents.
curl http://example.com | hicat
If hicat fails to detect a language, specify it using -l LANG.
curl http://example.com | hicat -l xml
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
-l, --lang LANG use a given language
--languages list available languages
--no-pager disable the pager
Add an alias to your ~/.bashrc to save a few keystrokes.
alias hi=hicat
highlight.js powers the syntax highlighter engine.
hicat © 2014+, Rico Sta. Cruz. Released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Rico Sta. Cruz with help from contributors.
ricostacruz.com · GitHub @rstacruz · Twitter @rstacruz
FAQs
Command-line syntax highlighter.
The npm package hicat receives a total of 53,358 weekly downloads. As such, hicat popularity was classified as popular.
We found that hicat demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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