Hello HN, After grappling with the frustrations of manually styling long bash commands for over a decade, I finally created a tool to automate it. The motivati

Hello HN, After grappling with the frustrations of manually styling long bash commands for over a decade, I finally created a tool to automate it. The motivation was simple: most DevOps professionals, like myself, document their commands. When tutorials or services (take Google Cloud Platform for instance) provide long commands on a single line, it's a legibility nightmare. Example from GCP: gcloud beta container --project "rayrun" node-pools create "test-runners-1" --cluster "rayrun" --zone "us-central1-c" --machine-type "e2-medium" --image-type "COS_CONTAINERD" --disk-type "pd-balanced" --disk-size "100" --metadata disable-legacy-endpoints=true --scopes "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append" --num-nodes "3" --enable-autoupgrade --enable-autorepair --max-surge-upgrade 1 --max-unavailable-upgrade 0 After spending far too much time manually adding line breaks and styling, it would look like: gcloud beta container \ --project "rayrun" \ node-pools create "test-runners-1" \ --cluster "rayrun" \ --zone "us-central1-c" \ --machine-type "e2-medium" \ --image-type "COS_CONTAINERD" \ --disk-type "pd-balanced" \ --disk-size "100" \ --metadata disable-legacy-endpoints=true \ --scopes "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append" \ --num-nodes "3" \ --enable-autoupgrade \ --enable-autorepair \ --max-surge-upgrade 1 \ --max-unavailable-upgrade 0 This might seem trivial for one-off commands, but it quickly becomes a tedious chore with frequent DevOps tasks. In light of this, I introduce to you, the *Bash Command Prettifier*. All you have to do is input your lengthy bash command, and the script will automatically format it with a neat line-break after every parameter, making it easily readable and perfect for documentation. The code is available as an open-source gist here: Bash Command Prettifier (https://gist.github.com/lucgagan/9f4219058f89c9d003ceced6d1d544b3 https://gist.github.com/lucgagan/9f4219058f89c9d003ceced6d1d...) Would love feedback, improvements, or any thoughts. If this has been a pain point for you too, hope this helps ease your DevOps documentation woes! Test it online: https://ray.run/tools/bash-command-formatter https://ray.run/tools/bash-command-formatter