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How can I highlight XML from stdin (e.g. piped from xmllint --format) to stdout?
I know how to get highlighting working in nano and view, but is there something that just outputs to stdout and exits?
What I'd link to do is just type something like
xmllint --format xmlfile.xml | some-highlighter
or maybe, for big files
xmllint --format xmlfile.xml | some-highlighter | less
and get pretty output.
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 included. It's available as "python-pygments" in the Ubuntu repositories or by using easy_install Pygments.
xmllint --format xmlfile.xml | pygmentize -l xml | less
-O encoding=UTF-8 to make it work on xmllint's output. Thanks!
apt-get install buffer). E.g. xmllint --format foo.xml |pygmentize -g |buffer |less -r
sudo apt install python-pygments to install it.
This is how you do it using GNU source-highlight and less:
source-highlight -i /tmp/foo.xml -f esc | less -r
esc256 produces prettier output than esc
source-highlight to run very slowly. It is probably parsing the input line by line. This command gave me good, fast results: xmllint --format - < input.xml | source-highlight -f esc -s xml | less -F
less -r (as stated in the answer) instead of less -F.
Feb 4, 2016 at 16:47
I found highlight in Homebrew for OSX, and I'm sure it's available in the Ubuntu repository. It does highlighting and output to a number of formats, including terminal output.
pbpaste|xmllint --format -|highlight --out-format=ansi --syntax=xml did the trick for me. (I could argue about highlight's color choices, though.)
Oct 3, 2012 at 9:19
I use bat:
xmllint --format - | bat -pP
-p removes all decoration (line numbers, etc.), -P disables the pager. Update: use -pp with newer versions of bat.
bat 0.12.1 I cannot use -P, but I can use --paging=never instead. (The error message was: error: Found argument '-P' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context)