How to make latexindent format recursively all files put within \input{}?

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Since there is no --recursive option, I wonder how to recursively format all entries in \input{} present in the main .tex file.

latexindent can format multiple files in one call, so for example, latexindent *.tex to format all .tex files in the current directory — cmhughes, May 29 '23 at 20:30
@cmhughes The problem is that the .tex files are not necessarily in the root directory — Rubem Pacelli, May 29 '23 at 23:55
@cmhughes This approach, although straightforward and obvious, does not provide a generic solution. I don't want to care about passing directories location that latexindent should run. — Rubem Pacelli, May 30 '23 at 15:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '23 at 03:26

Due to lack of apparent solution for this this issue, the following shell command forces latexindent to run for every \input{} entry found in the main .tex file:

grep -oP "(?<=\\\\input{)[^}]+" main.tex | while read file; do
    latexindent --silent --overwrite ${file}
done

where main.tex is the main latex file with your \input{} entries. That is a ad-hoc solution, though. I would like to have a more elegant way out.

How to make latexindent format recursively all files put within \input{}?

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