---
name: "astyle"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "astyle"
version: "3.1-3+b3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/astyle"
---

# astyle(1)

multi-language indentation and reformatting filters

## NAME

astyle - multi-language indentation and reformatting filters

## SYNOPSIS

**astyle**

**astyle** \[*options*\] *File1* \[*File2*\] \[*...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**Artistic Style** (or **astyle**) is a source code indenter, formatter and beautifier, written in C++. It handles the following programming languages:

- •

  C

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  C++

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  C++/CLI

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  Objective-C

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  C#

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  Java

## USAGE

For the full usage, please refer to the HTML documentation provided with this distribution in */usr/share/doc/astyle/html*

Please note that when indenting a specific file the newly indented file retains the original filename, while a copy of the original file is created, with a suffix of ".orig" added to the original filename.

## SEE ALSO

**[indent(1)](/indent/1.md)**

*http://astyle.sourceforge.net/*\
 *http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/astyle/*\
 *http://packages.debian.org/astyle*

## AUTHOR

Artistic Style was originally written by Tal Davidson \<davidsont@bigfoot.com\> and is currently maintained by Jim Pattee \<jimp03@email.com\>.

This stub manual page was written by Matteo Cypriani \<mcy@lm7.fr\> for the Debian project.