tldr-lint

tldr-lint is a linting tool for validating tldr pages. It can also format your pages for you!

Installation

tldr-lint and its alias tldrl can be installed via npm:

npm install --global tldr-lint

Usage

It's really simple.

Usage: tldr-lint [options] <file|dir>

Options:
  -V, --version        output the version number
  -f, --format         also attempt formatting (to stdout, or as specified by -o)
  -o, --output <file>  output to formatted file
  -i, --in-place       formats in place
  -t, --tabular        format errors in a tabular format
  -v, --verbose        print verbose output
  -I, --ignore <codes> ignore comma separated tldr-lint error codes (e.g. "TLDR001,TLDR0014")
  -h, --help           display help for command

Usage via Docker

We provide a Dockerfile for reproducibly building and testing tldr-lint even without having NodeJS installed.

For building the Docker image, run this command inside the cloned tldr-lint repository:

docker build -t tldr-lint .

For running a tldr-lint container, you need to mount a volume containing the page(s) you want to lint to the container. For checking a single page, run (replacing {{/path/to/page.md}} with the path to the page you want to check):

docker run --rm -v {{/path/to/page.md}}:/app/page.md tldr-lint page.md

In order to run the container on a directory, mount this directory as follows:

docker run --rm -v {{/path/to/directory}}:/app/pages tldr-lint pages/

[!NOTE] For Windows users, specify the full path to the directory or page you want to check along with the docker run command above.

Linter errors

All of the errors can be found in lib/tldr-lint.js.

Error Code | Description :---------- | :----------- TLDR001 | File should contain no leading whitespace TLDR002 | A single space should precede a sentence TLDR003 | Descriptions should start with a capital letter TLDR004 | Command descriptions should end in a period TLDR005 | Example descriptions should end in a colon with no trailing characters TLDR006 | Command name and description should be separated by an empty line TLDR007 | Example descriptions should be surrounded by empty lines TLDR008 | File should contain no trailing whitespace TLDR009 | Page should contain a newline at end of file TLDR010 | Only Unix-style line endings allowed TLDR011 | Page never contains more than a single empty line TLDR012 | Page should contain no tabs TLDR013 | Title should be alphanumeric with dashes, underscores or spaces TLDR014 | Page should contain no trailing whitespace TLDR015 | Example descriptions should start with a capital letter TLDR016 | Label for information link should be spelled exactly More information: TLDR017 | Information link should be surrounded with angle brackets TLDR018 | Page should only include a single information link TLDR019 | Page should only include a maximum of 8 examples TLDR020 | Label for additional notes should be spelled exactly Note: (with a succeeding whitespace) TLDR021 | Command example should not begin or end in whitespace TLDR101 | Command description probably not properly annotated TLDR102 | Example description probably not properly annotated TLDR103 | Command example is missing its closing backtick TLDR104 | Example descriptions should prefer infinitive tense (e.g. write) over present (e.g. writes) or gerund (e.g. writing) TLDR105 | There should be only one command per example TLDR106 | Page title should start with a hash (#) TLDR107 | File name should end with .md extension TLDR108 | File name should not contain whitespace TLDR109 | File name should be lowercase TLDR110 | Command example should not be empty