I recently wrote:

>> My org documents include lots of source code blocks, in a variety of
>> languages. I use the listings package to give each language a
>> distinctive look.
>>
>> Lately, my work has involved using shell commands on different machines,
>> as different users. I'd like to give each shell environment (e.g., local
>> user, normal user on remote host, root on remote host) a different look.
>> At the moment, I'm doing this by specifying different shells (bash,
>> dash, sh) for each. This works, especially since I'm not executing the
>> commands from emacs, so it doesn't matter which shell I specify.
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this?
>>
>
I've found that #+ATTR_LATEX: :options language=.... does exactly what I
was looking for. The attached example may be useful to others.