pygmentize - highlights the input file
pygmentize
[-l <lexer> | -g] [-F <filter>[:<options>]] [-f <formatter>]
[-O <options>] [-P <option=value>] [-o <outfile>] [<infile>]
pygmentize
-S <style> -f <formatter> [-a <arg>] [-O <options>] [-P <option=value>]
pygmentize -L [<which> ...]
pygmentize
-H <type> <name>
pygmentize -h | -V
Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter for general use in all
kinds of software such as forum systems, wikis or other applications that
need to prettify source code.
Its highlights are:
* a wide range of common languages and markup formats is supported
* special attention is paid to details, increasing quality by a fair amount
* support for new languages and formats are added easily
* a number of output formats, presently HTML, LaTeX and ANSI sequences
* it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library
* ... and it highlights even Brainfuck!
pygmentize is a command that uses Pygments to highlight the
input file and write the result to <outfile>. If no
<infile> is given, stdin is used.
A summary of options is included below.
- -l
<lexer>
- Set the lexer name. If not given, the lexer is guessed from the extension
of the input file name (this obviously doesn't work if the input is
stdin).
- -g
- Attempt to guess the lexer from the file contents, or pass through as
plain text if this fails (this can work for stdin).
- -F
<filter>[:<options>]
- Add a filter to the token stream. You can give options in the same way as
for -O after a colon (note: there must not be spaces around the colon).
This option can be given multiple times.
- -f
<formatter>
- Set the formatter name. If not given, it will be guessed from the
extension of the output file name. If no output file is given, the
terminal formatter will be used by default.
- -o
<outfile>
- Set output file. If not given, stdout is used.
- -O
<options>
- With this option, you can give the lexer and formatter a comma-separated
list of options, e.g. "-O bg=light,python=cool". Which options
are valid for which lexers and formatters can be found in the
documentation. This option can be given multiple times.
- -P
<option=value>
- This option adds lexer and formatter options like the -O option, but you
can only give one option per -P. That way, the option value may contain
commas and equals signs, which it can't with -O.
- -S
<style>
- Print out style definitions for style <style> and for
formatter <formatter>. The meaning of the argument given by
-a <arg> is formatter dependent and can be found in
the documentation.
- -L [<which>
...]
- List lexers, formatters, styles or filters. Set <which> to
the thing you want to list (e.g. "styles"), or omit it to list
everything.
- -H <type>
<name>
- Print detailed help for the object <name> of type
<type>, where <type> is one of
"lexer", "formatter" or "filter".
- -h
- Show help screen.
- -V
- Show version of the Pygments package.
/usr/share/doc/python-pygments-doc/index.html
pygmentize was written by Georg Brandl
<g.brandl@gmx.net>.
This manual page was written by Piotr Ozarowski
<ozarow@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).