NAME

perlhl - command-line syntax highlighter for Perl source code

VERSION

version 0.007

SYNOPSIS

perlhl < bin/perlhl | less -R
perlhl bin/perlhl lib/App/perlhl.pm

DESCRIPTION

perlhl is a command line syntax highlighter for Perl code.

OPTIONS

--help, -h, -?

Opens this man page and exits.

--version

Prints the version of this program and supporting libraries.

--html

Output HMTL fragment instead of ANSI terminal escapes.

USE

Provide input on stdin to perlhl to highlight it to stdout with ANSI colour escapes.

perlhl < script.pl

It is not recommended to provide multiple files on stdout, since they'll be concatenated. This makes it impossible to know where one ends and the next begins, and will yield inferior syntax highlighting results. To highlight multiple files, provide filenames on the command line:

perlhl lib/My/Module.pm lib/My/Module/Again.pm

Provide the --html option to output an HTML fragment. In the future, this option might print a whole valid document.

SEE ALSO

• Syntax::Highlight::Perl::Improved

• Term::ANSIColor

• Text::Highlight

There is a one-liner that can do something comparable:

perl -MText::Highlight -E 'my $h = Text::Highlight->new(ansi => 1);
> my $text = do { local $/; open my $fh, "<", $ARGV[0]; <$fh> };
> say $h->highlight("Perl", $text);
> ' bin/perlhl

AVAILABILITY

The project homepage is http://metacpan.org/release/App-perlhl/.

The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a CPAN site near you, or see https://metacpan.org/module/App::perlhl/.

SOURCE

The development version is on github at http://github.com/doherty/App-perlhl and may be cloned from git://github.com/doherty/App-perlhl.git

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

You can make new bug reports, and view existing ones, through the web interface at https://github.com/doherty/App-perlhl/issues.

AUTHOR

Mike Doherty <doherty@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Mike Doherty.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm App::perlhl

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::perlhl