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NAME
cb - C program beautifier
SYNOPSIS
cb [ -js ] [ -l length ] [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Cb reads syntactically correct C programs from its input or
the given files, and writes them to its stdout with a more
visually pleasing spacing and indentation. Cb understands
no C++ syntax bar newline-terminated comments; and by
default all user new-lines are preserved in the output.
The options are:
-j Join split lines.
-s Print code in the so-called K&R style used in The C
Programming Language.
-l Split lines that are longer than length.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/cb
BUGS
Cb does not reformat structure initializers.
Punctuation hidden in macros can cause indentation errors.
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