Hi steve, .. that still seems to open the editor , though it reads from the STDIN, it still opens the editor, which was not exactly what I was looking for . I indeed found a better tool, it is called "highlight", ..... A source code formatter( can be found in the Fedora repos). the following does the needful for me : highlight <somefile> -M --style=vim.
anyway that was a nice hack, thanks Satish On 2/17/09, steve <st...@lonetwin.net> wrote: > Hi Satish, > > Satish Eerpini wrote: >> Is it possible to 'cat' a file to the terminal in a particular color >> scheme, say like the color scheme used by vim or something. >> I mean instead of getting plain text when we run say : >> cat foo.c >> , can we obtain the output in a particular color scheme in the >> terminal ? Is this possible ?? > > Well, "cat" a tool for concatenating files. It does not know (or care) where > it > is cat-ing to (for that matter, it does not know or care, where it is > cat-ing > from either -- and still, or probably because of this, it is one of the most > useful commands in the unix toolbox) > > OTOH, Pagers (like 'more' or 'less') are tools to view files on the > terminal. > That said, vim also behaves somewhat like a pager when invoked using the > command > 'view'. However, this does not do syntax highlighting, nor does it take > input > from stdin (ie: executing "cat /some/file | view" does not do what you > expect) > > So, to view a file with syntax highlighting, you can use a vim trick. > - Look for the file /usr/share/vim/vim*/macros/less.sh > - create an alias for that script: > $ alias vless='/usr/share/vim/vim<version>/macros/less.sh' > (you may also save the alias in ~/.bashrc if you like) > - now use vless as you would use less > $ vless foo.c > $ cat /some/file | some_filter | vless > > HTH > regards, > - steve > -- > Linux Centric Marketplace: http://www.tuxcompatible.com > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with > "unsubscribe <password> <address>" > in the subject or body of the message. > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- http://satish.playdrupal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
