Universal Code Formatter

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Universal Code Formatter (UCF) is a command line application that formats most programming language files.

Why ucf

Each programming / markup language has a different formatting tool with different command line flags and different behaviours. The burden of selecting a tool and calling it with the right parameters lies on the IDE or the end user. UCF takes that on to itself. So, without UCF

black code1.py
gofmt -w code2.go
rustfmt code3.rs
prettier -w code4.html
clang-format -i code5.cpp

With UCF

ucf code1.py
ucf code2.go
ucf code3.rs
ucf code4.html
ucf code5.cpp

Installation

With cargo

cargo install ucf

AUR

yay -S ucf

Working

Under the hood, ucf is a simple program. It determines the file extension of the file and calls the appropriate code formatter with appropriate arguments. The called code formatter should be present in the system’s $PATH.