Beautysh does nothing

[starty-arty]

I installed beautysh as pip install beautysh, and then tried to run it but it did nothing.

~ ❱❱❱ python --version
Python 3.9.6
~ ❱❱❱ cat temp.sh
echo "meep"|grep "e";echo "no u"~ ❱❱❱ 
~ ❱❱❱ beautysh temp.sh 
~ ❱❱❱ cat temp.sh
echo "meep"|grep "e";echo "no u"~ ❱❱❱ 

[AmyMoriyama]

I tried this on some of my somewhat messy scripts and it did nothing apparently. I used the -b argument and it didn't even backup anything so I presume the program itself is broken somehow. Not well versed in python so I can't check it out.

[devenes]

Hi @starty-arty,

I installed beautysh as pip install beautysh, and then tried to run it but it did nothing.
echo "meep"|grep "e";echo "no u"

Actually there is nothing to beautify in your example. There is no best practice for using pipes and semicolons. So, beautysh does nothing.
But we agree that if statements should be formatted in a special way with indentation.
I recommend using beautysh on files containing lots of loops, if statements, etc.

If you try this example;

        if [[ $(id -u) != "0" ]]; then
echo "Error: You must be root to run this script."
else
echo "Installing ..."
        fi

will be changed to:

if [[ $(id -u) != "0" ]]; then
    echo "Error: You must be root to run this script."
else
    echo "Installing ..."
fi