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How can I highlight XML on the command line?

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Mar 15, 202610207 views
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How can I highlight XML from stdin (e.g. piped from ) to stdout? I know how to get highlighting working in and , but is there something that just outputs to stdout and exits? What I'd link to do is just type something like or maybe, for big files and get pretty output.

Error Output

xmllint --format xmlfile.xml | some-highlighter

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Supercat and grcat (grc) can do piped syntax highlighting. You'll probably have to make or find configuration files for XML. They are both available in the Ubuntu repositories as well as at the links provided. Pygmentize has XML highlighting include…

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