FISH_INDENT(1)

✨ NAME ✨

fish_indent — the indenter and prettifier, aka your code's personal glam squad 💅

This page is from the fish-shell manual, bestie, and it's literally all about making your fish code look snatched.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fish_indent [OPTIONS] [FILE ...]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so fish_indent is the tool you call when your fish code needs a glow-up. It reads commands from standard input or from the filenames you hand it, and then it outputs them to standard output or to a file you specify — but only if you pass -w, iykyk.

Here's the full menu of options, no cap:

• -w or --write — Indents a given file and then immediately writes the result right back into that same file. Iconic, in-place, no extra copies. 🫶
• -i or --no-indent — Doesn't indent anything at all; it only reformats so you get one job per line. Lowkey a vibe reset and nothing more.
• --only-indent — No reformatting allowed, bestie — it only indents each line.
• --only-unindent — Same energy, opposite direction: no reformatting, it only unindents each line.
• -c or --check — Doesn't indent at all; it just returns 0 if the code is already indented exactly the way fish_indent would do it, and otherwise returns the number of failed files. Also, if it's not reading from standard input, it prints the names of the failed files. Basically a vibe check for your formatting. 🔥
• -v or --version — Displays the current fish version, then dips out. Periodt.
• --ansi — Colorizes the output using ANSI escape sequences, pulling colors from the environment (like fish_color_command, which is an envvar). Pretty privilege for your terminal 🌈
• --html — Outputs HTML instead, which supports syntax highlighting if the appropriate CSS is defined. The CSS class names are the same as the variable names, like fish_color_command. Slay in the browser too ✨
• --dump-parse-tree — Dumps info about the parsed statements to standard error. Ngl this is probably only interesting to people working on the fish source code itself — it's giving main character energy for maintainers only 🙈
• -h or --help — Displays help about using this command. When in doubt, ask for help 💖

Heads up: --dump-parse-tree writes to standard error, not standard output — so don't go looking for it in your piped output, bestie. 💀

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🎀 Copyright 🎀

fish-shell developers — legends, honestly 👑

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Alright, that's the whole page! This one's from fish version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026, so go forth and let your fish code be as cute as it is correct 🦋💜