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Commands tagged indent

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unzip document.odt content.xml && xmlindent -w content.xml && nano content.xml
2012-12-01 17:05:28
User: arthurdent
Tags: OpenOffice.org xml indent nano .odt libreoffice
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Open/modify .odt in nano with indentation

OpenDocument documents from OpenOffice.org,LibreOffice

and other applications, are actually ZIP archives.

Useful informations in these archives are in XML format.

Here we like it or do not. Anyway, the XML files have the unfortunate tendency to

not be indented, and for good reason: they consist of only one line!

To solve the problem and to use a proper editor on the content,

I proceed as follows.

Required xmlindent

You can also use :

zip document.odt content.xml

And it works with vi instead of nano !

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xmllint --format --xmlout --nsclean <file>
2012-11-27 06:13:23
User: sandre
Tags: xml indent xmllint prettify
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Prettify an XML file

Like `tidy`, `xmllint` can be used to prettify XML files.

The --nsclean option is also useful to remove redundant namespaces.

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parcellite -c | sed 's/^/ /' | parcellite
2012-09-05 18:00:15
User: brandizzi
Functions: sed
Tags: clipboard indent parcellite
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Using parcellite, indents the content of the clipboard manager

This command takes the content of a Parcellite-managed clipboard manager and add one level of indentation to it. It may be useful to indent a block of code which will enter inside another, already indented one but I use it mostly to indent code I will post in Stack Overflow questions and answers.

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gcc -E code.c | sed '/^\#/d' | indent -st -i2 > code-x.c
2012-06-18 22:20:33
User: enikulenkov
Functions: gcc sed
Tags: sed indent gcc preprocessor
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Apply only preprocessor for .c file and beautify output
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echo '<foo><bar/></foo>' | xmllint --format -
2012-01-12 09:39:56
User: akavel
Functions: echo
Tags: pipe tidy xml indent xmllint format
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Prettify XML in pipeline

xmllint2 comes with GNU libxml2 library.

(based on: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Format_your_xml_document_using_xmllint)

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find . -iname \*.[ch] -exec indent "{}" \;
2010-09-10 13:25:10
User: putnamhill
Functions: find
Tags: Programming indent
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Indent all the files in a project using indent

This version uses the indent C formatting utility. Doesn't appear to be included with ubuntu. But CentOS and MacOS have it.

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find -iname \*.[ch] -exec emacs -nw -q {} --eval "(progn (mark-whole-buffer) (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil) (save-buffer))" --kill \;
2010-09-10 12:24:58
User: ioggstream
Functions: emacs find
Tags: Programming emacs indent
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Indent all the files in a project using emacs

use -iname \*[.ch] instead of -iname \*.c -o -iname \*.h

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find . -iname \*.c -or -iname \*.h -exec emacs -nw -q {} --eval "(progn (mark-whole-buffer) (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil) (save-buffer))" --kill \;
2010-09-10 05:07:11
User: zev
Functions: emacs find
Tags: Programming emacs indent
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Indent all the files in a project using emacs

Use find's exec and reduce the need for multiple evals with a progn wrapper.

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lst=`find . -iname \*.c -or -iname \*.h`; for i in $lst; do emacs -nw -q $i --eval "(mark-whole-buffer)" --eval "(indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil)" --eval "(save-buffer)" --kill; done
2010-09-09 22:02:54
User: JollyJumper
Functions: emacs
Tags: Programming emacs indent
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Indent all the files in a project using emacs

indenting all the files at a time, if the file has local variable for indentation style its even better.

This one liner is not pretty but it does the job.

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indent -kr hello.c
2010-07-14 07:16:15
User: cp
Tags: indent
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Use Kernighan & Ritchie coding style in C program
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indent -linux helloworld.c
2009-08-05 07:53:08
User: freestyler
Tags: indent
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Use Linux coding style in C program

put "-linux" option into $HOME/.indent.pro to make it default

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