highlight:tldr:1b6e7
highlight: Produce an HTML fragment, suitable for inclusion in a larger document.
$ highlight --out-format=${html} --fragment --syntax ${language} ${source_file}
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The given command is using the "highlight" tool to generate syntax-highlighted HTML code for a specific source file.
Here is what each part of the command does:
highlight: This is the name of the tool being used.--out-format=${html}: This specifies the output format to be HTML.${html}is likely a placeholder for the actual value of "html".--fragment: This flag instructs highlight to generate a fragment of HTML code rather than a complete HTML document.--syntax ${language}: This specifies the desired programming language for syntax highlighting.${language}is likely a placeholder for the actual language value.${source_file}: This is the file that will be processed and highlighted.
Overall, this command will take a source file, apply syntax highlighting to it using the specified language, and output a fragment of HTML code representing the highlighted syntax.
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