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Indent (Unix)

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Developer(s)
  
FSF

Written in
  
C

Development status
  
Inactive?

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Original author(s)
  
David Ingamells, Carlo Wood, Joseph Arceneaux, Jim Kingdon, John Bridges

Stable release
  
2.2.10 / March 11, 2008; 8 years ago (2008-03-11)

indent is a Unix utility that reformats C and C++ code in a user-defined indent style and coding style. Support for C++ code is considered experimental.

Contents

Examples of usage

The command line

indent -st -bap -bli0 -i4 -l79 -ncs -npcs -npsl -fca -lc79 -fc1 -ts4 SomeFile.c

indents SomeFile.c in a style resembling BSD/Allman style and writes the result to the standard output.

GNU indent

GNU indent is the GNU Project's version of indent. A different indent style, the GNU style, is used by default.

GUI

  • UniversalIndentGUI
  • References

    Indent (Unix) Wikipedia