Colored Cat

CCat officially supports Python 3.8+.

Main features

Read and highlight text and code files
Filter to display only selected lines
Multiple highlight styles
Save output at image (png/jpg) file using ansi2image lib.

Installation

pip3 install --upgrade pyccat

Help

ccat -h

positional arguments:
  [filename]                                Filename

Options:
  -s, --simple                              just colorize the file content
  -nt, --no-tabulated                       do not show tab
  --style [style name]                      pygments lib style name. (default: gruvbox-dark). See more at: https://pygments.org/styles/
  -l [filter], --lines [filter]             return only selected lines (ex1: 5:13 or ex2: 50: or ex3: :100)
  -hl [filter], --highlight-lines [filter]  highlight only selected lines (ex1: 5:13 or ex2: 50: or ex3: :100)
  --output-img [filename]                   image output file.
  -h, --help                                show help message and exit
  -v                                        Specify verbosity level (default: 0). Example: -v, -vv, -vvv
  --version                                 show current version

Executing

Regular linux cat cat

Read a file

ccat /tmp/teste.json

Sample 001

Read a file without table

ccat -nt /tmp/teste.json

Sample 002

Just highlight the file

ccat -s /tmp/teste.json

Sample 003

Display only some lines

ccat -l 18:37 teste.json

Sample 004

ccat -l 18:23,35:37 teste.json

Sample 004

Display only some lines and highlight specific lines

ccat -l 18:37 -hl 18:23,35:37 teste.json

Sample 004

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