owenthereal/ccat

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3207 stars · 120 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ccat is a Go-based command-line tool that works like cat but displays file contents with syntax highlighting. It supports several languages, HTML output, custom color schemes, and runs as a single fast native binary.

Use cases

• view source files with syntax highlighting in the terminal
• replace cat with a colorized version
• print code files with colors from the command line
• pipe curl output through a syntax highlighter
• generate HTML-highlighted versions of source files

When to choose

• you want a fast, single-binary cat replacement with syntax highlighting
• you need minimal overhead over plain cat
• you want HTML output or customizable color codes

When to avoid

• you need highlighting for languages beyond JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Python, Go, C, and JSON
• you want an actively developed tool with modern features like git integration
• you need a pager or advanced features offered by alternatives like bat

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli developer-tools developer-tools windows cli go cat syntax-highlighting terminal colorized-output command-line linux macos

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