Highlight Bash/shell code in Markdown files

Question

How can I highlight the Bash/shell commands in Markdown files?

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For example, to highlight js, I write:

```js function () { return "This code is highlighted as Javascript!"} ``` 

To highlight HTML code I use ```html.

How can we highlight Bash/shell commands?

Answer 1

If you are looking to highlight a shell session command sequence as it looks to the user (with prompts, not just as contents of a hypothetical script file), then the right identifier to use at the moment is console:

```console foo@bar:~$ whoami foo ``` 

Answer 2

It depends on the Markdown rendering engine and the Markdown flavour. There is no standard for this. If you mean GitHub flavoured Markdown for example, shell should work fine. Aliases are sh, bash or zsh. You can find the list of available syntax lexers here.