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ruby - syntax highlight clipboard contents
require 'coderay'
language = "auto";
if(ARGV.length > 0)
language = ARGV[0];
end
codeToHighlight = `xsel --clipboard`
highlightedCode = CodeRay.scan(codeToHighlight, language.intern()).div
IO.popen("xsel --clipboard", mode='w') do |io|
io.write highlightedCode
end
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Mac OS X version :) http://gist.github.com/550075

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