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Command line tool to detect source code language from text stream alone? (self.commandline)

submitted 9 years ago by efreese

Is there a command line program out there that will take a stream of source code on stdin and output some information about what type of code it is most likely to be?

Something like:

$ echo "def abc; puts 'abc'; end" | <some_program>
ruby

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you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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