cite about-plugin about-plugin 'pygmentize instead of cat to terminal if possible' if $(command -v pygmentize &> /dev/null) ; then # get the full paths to binaries CAT_BIN=$(which cat) LESS_BIN=$(which less) BASH_IT_CCAT_STYLE="${BASH_IT_CCAT_STYLE:=default}" BASH_IT_CLESS_STYLE="${BASH_IT_CLESS_STYLE:=default}" # pigmentize cat and less outputs - call them ccat and cless to avoid that # especially cat'ed output in scripts gets mangled with pygemtized meta characters function ccat() { about 'runs either pygmentize or cat on each file passed in' param '*: files to concatenate (as normally passed to cat)' example 'cat mysite/manage.py dir/text-file.txt' for var; do pygmentize -f 256 -O style="$BASH_IT_CCAT_STYLE" -g "$var" 2>/dev/null || "$CAT_BIN" "$var"; done } function cless() { about 'it pigments the file passed in and passes it to less for pagination' param '$1: the file to paginate with less' example 'less mysite/manage.py' pygmentize -f 256 -O style="$BASH_IT_CLESS_STYLE" -g $* | "$LESS_BIN" -R } fi