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vale — Extensible style checker that supports multiple markup formats, such as Markdown and AsciiDoc. More

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Problem

How to use the vale command: Extensible style checker that supports multiple markup formats, such as Markdown and AsciiDoc. More information: <https://vale.sh/docs/cli>.

Solution

vale — Extensible style checker that supports multiple markup formats, such as Markdown and AsciiDoc. More information: <https://vale.sh/docs/cli>.

Check the style of a file:

vale {{path/to/file}}

Check the style of a file with a specified configuration:

vale --config='{{path/to/.vale.ini}}' {{path/to/file}}

Output the results in JSON format:

vale --output=JSON {{path/to/file}}

Check style issues at the specific severity and higher:

vale --minAlertLevel={{suggestion|warning|error}} {{path/to/file}}

Check the style from stdin, specifying markup format:

cat {{file.md}} | vale --ext=.md

List the current configuration:

vale ls-config

Code Snippets

Check the style of a file

vale {{path/to/file}}

Check the style of a file with a specified configuration

vale --config='{{path/to/.vale.ini}}' {{path/to/file}}

Output the results in JSON format

vale --output=JSON {{path/to/file}}

Check style issues at the specific severity and higher

vale --minAlertLevel={{suggestion|warning|error}} {{path/to/file}}

Check the style from `stdin`, specifying markup format

cat {{file.md}} | vale --ext=.md

Context

tldr-pages: common/vale

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