zaje - a colouriser to cover all your shell needs

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zaje is a syntax highlighter that aims to cover all your shell colouring needs. With a spot of one-line shell functions, it can act as an ad-hoc replacement for both cat and tail.

Features

  • Supports over a 100 lexers for programming languages, configuration and log formats and UNIX commands (this is done using the highlight Go package
  • Can accept input as an argument as well as from an STDIN stream
  • Can detect the lexer to use based on:
    • The file name (when acting in cat mode)
    • The first line of text (so it will usually work nicely when piping as well)
  • Supports explicit specification of the lexer to use via a command-line arg and an ENV var
  • Easily to deploy: since it’s a Go CLI app, it’s one, statically linked executable with no dynamic deps
  • Easily extendable: see Revising and adding new lexers for details

Installation

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jessp01/zaje/master/install_zaje.sh > install_zaje.sh
$ ./install_zaje.sh

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