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indent
Original author(s)David Willcox
Developer(s)David Ingamells, Carlo Wood, Joseph Arceneaux, Jim Kingdon, John Bridges
Initial releaseNovember 1976; 47 years ago (1976-11)
Stable release
2.2.13[1] / 20 March 2023; 12 months ago (20 March 2023)
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemCross-platform
Typesource-code-reformat tool
LicenseGNU: GPL-3.0-or-later[2]
WebsiteGNU: gnu.org/software/indent/

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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

Examples of usage

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

GNU indent is the GNU Project's version of indent. A different indentation style, the GNU style, is used by default.[6]

References

  1. ^ "NEWS - indent.git". Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  2. ^ GNU Savannah. "GNU indent". Retrieved 2023-10-30. License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
  3. ^ "indent: Indent and Format C Program Source". www.gnu.org. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  4. ^ Dickey, Thomas (2017). "CINDENT - C-language formatter". Invisible Island. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  5. ^ "Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities". unxutils.sourceforge.net.
  6. ^ GNU Indent Manual

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