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Created July 22, 2013 18:20
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Use `type` builtin to format bash code. Give it a bash file as an argument, it will overwrite it with formatted bash. Kinda useful for one-liners, but adds useless semicolons and strips comments. At least.
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format-bash.sh
#!/bin/bash
eval "function $1() { $(cat $1); }";
type $1 2>&1 | sed -n 's#^ ##p' > "$1"
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