Hilite - Console Syntax Hilighter
Hilite is a console-based syntax highlighter
for a number of language files and scripts, including (but not
limited to) batch files,JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, C#, SQL,
Python, HTML, XML, XHTML and XSLT. It makes quick reading of source code
files a lot easier without leaving the Windows Command Prompt.
Below, you can see a batch file displayed
using the regular type command and the hilite utility
(note syntax highlighting on comments like rem, known commands like
echo and cd and even environment variables):
Hilite employs an algorithm that was borrowed from the JavaScript toolset dp.SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev. It is not perfect and sometimes you might see a few odd cases of highlighting, but it's fairly effective for 90% of the cases.
Usage
Hilite [ ( FILENAME | - | ? ) [ LANGUAGE ] ]
The first argument can either be a file name or the dash (-) character. If it is
dash then standard input is used. In general, the tool can guess the syntax highlighting
to apply from the file extension. For example, JavaScript for .js,
SQL for .sql, HTML for .htm and so on. In cases where the
extension is not obvious or cannot be inferred, you can specify the language as the
second argument. This is needed, for instance, if you are reading from standard input.
To see a list of supported language names, aliases and extensions, run
hilite ?—that is, using question mark (?) as the first and only
argument.
Download
Download version 1.0.8506.0 . The download includes the C# source code & compiled binaries in debug and release configurations.
Requirements
Hilite requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to run and supports the same set of operating systems as the runtime.