How to get colored syntax highlighting in crontab

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Issue

  • How to get colored syntax highlighting in crontab?
  • On other Linux distributions, when I crontab -e all entries are in color which makes it easy to read, but in RHEL it is black and white, what do I need to do to get colour?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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