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+// Copyright (C) from 2022 The Play Framework Contributors <https://github.com/playframework>, 2011-2021 Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>
+
+addCommandAlias(
+  "formatCode",
+  List(
+    "headerCreateAll",
+    "scalafmtSbt",
+    "scalafmtAll",
+    "javafmtAll"
+  ).mkString(";")
+)
+
+addCommandAlias(
+  "validateCode",
+  List(
+    "headerCheckAll",
+    "scalafmtSbtCheck",
+    "scalafmtCheckAll",
+    "javafmtCheckAll",
+  ).mkString(";")
+)