NAME

ruby-mdl - Markdown lint tool

SYNOPSIS

mdl [ options ] [FILE.md|DIR ...]

DESCRIPTION

ruby-mdl checks an individual markdown file, or a directory of markdown files against a set of 47 rules for syntax consistency. In its report back to the CLI, the Ruby based implementation reports the line(s) with an issue identified and how to improve it.

OPTIONS

-c, --config FILE

The configuration file to use

-g, --git-recurse

Only process files known to git when given a directory

-i, --[no]-ignore-front-matter

Ignore YAML front matter

-j, --json

JSON output

-l, --list-rules

Don't process any files, just list enabled rules

-r, --rules RULE1,RULE2

Only process these rules

-u, --rulesets RULESET1,RULESET2

Specify additional ruleset files to load

-a, --[no]show-aliases

Show rule aliases instead of rule ID when viewing rules

-w, --[no]warnings

Show kramdown warnings

-d, --skip-default-ruleset

Don't load the default markdownlint ruleset

-s, --style STYLE

Load the given style

-t, --tags TAG1,TAG2

Only process rules with these tags

-v, --[no-]verbose

Increase verbosity

-h, --help

Show this message

-V, --version

Show version

AUTHOR

Mark Harrison, Ciro Santilli, Making GitHub Delicious, Brandon High, Matt Jankowski, David Anson, Tobias Bengfort, Loic Nageleisen, Will Fleming, Jean-Christophe Gay, sudodoki, David Rodríguez, Garth Braithwaite, Alexander Köplinger, Simon Symeonidis, Jakub Wilk, Eitan Adler, David Rodríguez, Phil Dibowitz, David Somers-Harris, copperwalls, John Trammell, Waylan Limberg, Ash, Paul B, Andrew Janke, Adam Strickland, Naomi Reeves, Olle Jonsson, Lauritz Hilsøe, Andrew Janke Roman Kolesnev, Alex Harvey, Tim Smith, Tim Smith, tsuburin, Mikael Kjaer, Caleb Buxton, Mark E. Schill, Waldir Pimenta, Ben van B, Jose Angel Pardillo Vela, androidseb, jtcarnes, Gene Gotimer, Sami Ahmed Siddiqui, Karol Babioch, Eric Knibbe, Alexander Jaust, orviz, Lennart Jern, Benjamin Quorning, Ting Chen, Kai, adamroyjones, Bengt Lüers, JP Hastings-Spital

LICENSE

MIT

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to and suggest improvements on the project page,
https://github.com/markdownlint/markdownlint

VERSION

This is about markdownlint version 0.12.0 (October 18th, 2022).