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Use prettier to format all files in a directory.  By default prettier does not write, it just echos out the format that it would do.  Give it the `--write` and it will write the changes to the files.

``` bash
prettier --write .
```

I just used this on my thoughts repo.

``` bash
prettier --write templates
```

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
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