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An adaptation of this script might work in that regard. It was a shell script I hacked together to reformat occasionally as I worked on things. Given one or more files on the command line, it looks to see if there is a .tdy version of the file present (creating an empty one if not), checks if the current version and the .tdy version differ, and if so, performs a tidy (setting the lines 123 characters-personal preference), not replacing the original if a .ERR file was produced. The .tdy file was also left in place for future comparison.

#!/bin/bash PERLTIDY='/usr/local/bin/perltidy -l 123 ' TOUCH=/bin/touch DIFF=/usr/bin/diff WC=/usr/bin/wc CP=/bin/cp if [ $# -gt 0 ] then echo Command line: $0 $@ for file in $@ do if [ ! -e $file.tdy ] then $TOUCH $file.tdy fi if [ `$DIFF -q $file $file.tdy | $WC -l` -gt 0 ] then $PERLTIDY $file if [ -e $file.ERR ] then echo Error detected-not replacing else $CP -v $file.tdy $file fi else echo Skipping $file - perltidy on file not necessary fi done else echo Usage: $0 filename fi

Update (20 Jan 2004): Added absolute paths to utilities used, to prevent issues with pathing.