Please document how to install the cli tools

[Ramblurr]

I see that in cmd/ there is an hclfmt tool.

How can I install this tool to format my hcl2 files (specifically, nomad job specs)? Are there pre built binaries available? I couldn't find any at https://releases.hashicorp.com/

[apparentlymart]

Hi @Ramblurr,

The applications that use HCL typically include a formatting command of their own which understands each application's specific conventions. While you could in principle use the generic hclfmt to achieve some basic formatting of your Nomad job specifications, it might also be worth discussing with the Nomad team the possibility of it offering a command like nomad fmt so that you don't need to install anything extra to achieve that. (This matches with terraform fmt and packer fmt, but perhaps the Nomad team will have a reason to choose a different convention.)

In the meantime though, if you wish to use hclfmt then you'll need to build it yourself from source code, because we maintain this repository primarily as a library and don't publish the ancillary tools as products in their own right. (They exist mainly as examples for applications to build from.)

[nahsi]

@Ramblurr you can install hclfmt using go install

go install github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2/cmd/hclfmt@latest

Here is a proposal to Nomad team: hashicorp/nomad#11757