ter Smitten's

I wanted to have syntax highlighting for a big SQL file I was working on. Finding a solution didn’t take my too long. Source-highlight given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting. Output formats that are supported:

• HTML
• XHTML
• LATEX
• TEXINFO
• ANSI
• DocBook

Input formats that are supported:

• Ada
• Asm
• Applescript
• Awk
• Autoconf files
• Bat
• Bib
• Bison
• C/C++
• C#
• CakePhp templates
• Clipper
• Cobol
• Configuration files (generic)
• Caml
• Changelog
• Css
• D
• Diff
• Erlang
• errors (compiler output)
• Flex
• Fortran
• GLSL
• Haskell
• Haskell literate programming
• Haxe
• Html
• ini files
• Java
• Javascript
• KDE desktop files
• Latex
• Ldap files
• Lisp
• Logtalk
• Log files
• lsm files (Linux Software Map)
• Lua
• Makefile
• Manifest
• M4
• ML
• Oz
• Pascal
• Perl
• pkg-config files
• PHP
• Postscript
• Prolog
• Properties files
• Protobuf (Google’s Protocol Buffers)
• Python
• RPM Spec files
• Ruby
• Scala
• Shell
• S-Lang
• Sql
• Tcl
• Texinfo
• Vala
• VBscript
• XML
• XOrg conf files

Exactly what I needed!

For Debian/Ubuntu get source-highlight to work is just as simple as:

apt-get install source-highlight

And adding these two environment variables (to .bashrc):

export LESSOPEN="| /usr/share/source-highlight/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh %s"
export LESS=' -R '

The result looks like this:

source-highlight SQL file

Be sure this line isn’t present in your .bashrc because it will interfere with source-highlight:

[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(lesspipe)"

For CentOS/Red Hat the procedure will be comparable, but I don’t now for sure if a RPM package of source-highlight is available.

References:

• http://linux-tips.org/article/78/syntax-highlighting-in-less
• http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/