JS_BEAUTIFY(1)

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version 0.25 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to js_beautify.pl — it's the command line tool that beautifies your javascript files 💅 like it takes your cursed little minified spaghetti and makes it pretty. periodt.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

js_beautify.pl [options] FILE
js_beautify.pl [options] -

so you either hand it a FILE or you hand it a - (which is the "read from stdin, I'm feeling mysterious" option 🫶).

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -?, --help — the classic "help me pls" move 🥺 shows you the help.
  • -w, --overwrite — if you pass -w, it will overwrite the FILE. like it just goes in there and rewrites your file in place. no cap.
  • -o, --output — by default, we will print beautified javascript to STDOUT ✨ but if you do --output=newfile.js, it will write into newfile.js instead. iconic behaviour honestly.
  • -s, --indent_size — the indent size, bestie. 📏
  • -c, --indent_character — the character used for indenting 🌈 by default, we use 4 spaces. but if you prefer 8 spaces, we can do -s=8 💀 yes really, that's the move.
  • -p, --preserve_newlines — 1 by default. so your newlines are getting preserved unless you say otherwise 🎀
ok quick vibe check: -s/--indent_size and -c/--indent_character are listed together in the original, and the "4 spaces by default" + "-s=8" note belongs to them, so don't @ me 🙈

Copyright 2009 Fayland Lam, all rights reserved. 💜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay.

and that's the whole page fr fr — this was the JS_BEAUTIFY(1) manual, living in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 🦋 mwah, go beautify something 💖✨

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