indent

Purpose

Indent stdin a specific number of spaces. This pads all lines on the left side.

Syntax

Syntax: indent NUM

Options and arguments

There are no options.

The only argument is a positive integer which indicates the number of columns to indent

Examples

Simple changes

$ date | indent 2
  Sat Feb 23 07:35:47 EST 2019
$ date | banner | indent 4
    ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
    ┃ Sat Feb 23 07:36:00 EST 2019 ┃
    ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
$

vi command

I often use this script inside vi to indent a portion of code:

Before running command

Note the command at the bottom of the screen.

After running command

Notes

• The tool only reads lines from stdin. You must redirect the input from a file, pipe, or here document.