indent

A small tool to convert (or enforce) text file indentation. Tabs to spaces or spaces to tabs.

Installation

Install via composer or just clone the repo.

Global installation

Install it globally using:

composer global require cebe/indent

Make sure your composer directory ($HOME/.composer/vendor/bin) is in your PATH.

Usage

indent [--tabs|--spaces] [-r [--pattern=...]] [files or directories...]

--tabs       convert all indentation to tabs. Assuming 4 spaces tab length.
--spaces     convert all indentation to spaces.

-r           recursively go over all directories given as argument and convert
             files that match --pattern.

--pattern    the pattern to match files for when using -r. Defaults to '*.php'.

--tabstop=N  define number of spaces N to replace a tab with. Defaults to 4.

--help       shows this usage information.

If no file is specified input will be read from STDIN.

Examples

Convert myfile.php to tabs:

indent --tabs myfile.php

Convert all .php-files and the README.md in current dir to spaces:

indent --spaces *.php README.md

Convert all .php-files in dir to tabs (recursively):

indent --tabs -r dir

Convert all .md-files in dir to spaces (recursively):

indent --spaces --pattern=*.md -r dir

Convert STDIN, which is the content of myfile.php to spaces and print the result to STDOUT:

cat myfile.php | ./indent --spaces