indent (Unix)
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| Original author | David Willcox |
| Developers | David Ingamells, Carlo Wood, Joseph Arceneaux, Jim Kingdon, John Bridges |
| Initial release | November 1976 |
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| Written in | C |
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| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | source-code-reformat tool |
| License | GNU: GPL-3.0-or-later[1] |
| Website | GNU: gnu |
indent is a Unix utility that reformats C and C++ code in a user-defined indentation style and coding style. Support for C++ code is minimal.[2]
The original version of indent was written by David Willcox at the University of Illinois in November 1976. It was incorporated into 4.1BSD in October 1982.[3] GNU indent was first written by Jim Kingdon in 1989. The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.[4]
Examples of usage
[edit | edit source]The following command
$ indent -st -bap -bli0 -i4 -l79 -ncs -npcs -npsl -fca -lc79 -fc1 -ts4 some_file.c
indents some_file.c in a style resembling BSD/Allman style and writes the result to the standard output.
GNU indent
[edit | edit source]GNU indent is the GNU Project's version of indent. A different indentation style, the GNU style, is used by default.[5]
References
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- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ GNU Indent Manual
External links
[edit | edit source]- GNU indent Homepage
- – OpenBSD General Commands Manual
- UniversalIndentGUI
- clang-format (an alternative to indent)
