Pretty-print for shell script

Question

I'm looking for something similiar to indent but for (bash) scripts. Console only, no colorizing, etc.

Do you know of one ?

Answer 1

Vim can indent bash scripts. But not reformat them before indenting.
Backup your bash script, open it with vim, type gg=GZZ and indent will be corrected. (Note for the impatient: this overwrites the file, so be sure to do that backup!)

Though, some bugs with << (expecting EOF as first character on a line) e.g.

EDIT: ZZ not ZQ

Answer 2

A bit late to the party, but it looks like shfmt could do the trick for you.

Answer 3

In bash I do this:

reindent() {
source <(echo "Zibri () {";cat "$1"; echo "}")
declare -f Zibri|head --lines=-1|tail --lines=+3 | sed -e "s/^\s\s\s\s//"
}

this eliminates comments and reindents the script "bash way".

If you have HEREDOCS in your script, they got ruined by the sed in the previous function.

So use:

reindent() {
source <(echo "Zibri () {";cat "$1"; echo "}")
declare -f Zibri|head --lines=-1|tail --lines=+3"
}

But all your script will have a 4 spaces indentation.

Or you can do:

reindent () 
{ 
    rstr=$(mktemp -u "XXXXXXXXXX");
    source <(echo "Zibri () {";cat "$1"|sed -e "s/^\s\s\s\s/$rstr/"; echo "}");
    echo '#!/bin/bash';
    declare -f Zibri | head --lines=-1 | tail --lines=+3 | sed -e "s/^\s\s\s\s//;s/$rstr/    /"
}

which takes care also of heredocs.

Answer 4

Found this http://www.linux-kheops.com/doc/perl/perl-aubert/fmt.script .

Very nice, only one thing i took out is the [...]->test substitution.