Listings settings for command line arguments

Question

I am typesetting a set of instructions which includes several (Unix) command line arguments. I have been using the listings package to include these arguments, but the colouring is less than ideal. Weird words like "test" are bolded. Is there something more like Pygments, which can highlight flags and filenames and the like?

As an example something like

program-name -some-option-flag -some-other-option-flag -i /location/of/input/file -o /location/of/output/file

Answer 1

Without a full MWE it not clear exactly what issue you are having. But, you can define you own keywords that you want highlighted. Below I have defined cd, man, ls,and uptime to be emphasized in blue, and the keyword filename to be emphasized in red. So when these appear in the listing the specified formatting is applied.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}%
\usepackage{xcolor}

\lstset{%
    backgroundcolor=\color{yellow!20},%
    basicstyle=\small\ttfamily,%
    numbers=left, numberstyle=\tiny, stepnumber=2, numbersep=5pt,%
    }%

\lstset{emph={%  
    cd, man, ls,uptime%
    },emphstyle={\color{blue}\bfseries\underbar},%
    morekeywords={filename},
    keywordstyle={\color{red}\ttfamily}
}%


\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}
man cd
ls -lF test/
rm filename
uptime
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}