How to call clang-format over a cpp project folder?
What about:
clang-format -i -style=WebKit *.cpp *.h
in the project folder. The -i option makes it inplace (by default formatted output is written to stdout).
Unfortunately, there is no way to apply clang-format recursively. *.cpp
will only match files in the current directory, not subdirectories. Even **/*
doesn't work.
Luckily, there is a solution: grab all the file names with the find
command and pipe them in. For example, if you want to format all .h
and .cpp
files in the directory foo/bar/
recursively, you can do
find foo/bar/ -iname *.h -o -iname *.cpp | xargs clang-format -i
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