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Original author(s) | David Willcox |
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Developer(s) | David Ingamells, Carlo Wood, Joseph Arceneaux, Jim Kingdon, John Bridges |
Initial release | November 1976 |
Stable release | 2.2.13[1]
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Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | source-code-reformat tool |
License | GNU: GPL-3.0-or-later[2] |
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.[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]
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later