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Disambiguating multiple formatted files when writing to standard output

Open aaronsky opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

When using google-java-format to format multiple files and print their formatted results to standard-out, it's unclear how I'm supposed to disambiguate between the results in the output. For performance reasons, I am running google-java-format against my codebase in batches of 100 files at a time, and for various other reasons, formatting in-place is not preferred.

For example, running this:

java -jar $HOME/bin/google-java-format --aosp path/to/file1.java path/to/file2.java path/to/file3.java path/to/file4.java

results in output like this:

/* my file 1 */

public class File1 {
    // ...
}
/* my file 2 */

public class File2 {
    // ...
}
/* my file 3 */

public class File3 {
    // ...
}
/* my file 4 */

public class File4 {
    // ...
}

This example is kind of contrived, but the main point is that the end of file1.java and the start of file2.java, and so on, are not delimited in a clear way. What can I do here to clearly associate the output for each formatted file with its source path?

aaronsky avatar Nov 29 '23 13:11 aaronsky