The fastest way to see something useful is to print something out to the console.

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This will print a summary of your linting results. The lint command will use the Recommended RuleSet.

Just want to try things out?

If you don’t have an OpenAPI spec and you want to see something, you can run it against one of the test specifications. A good one to try is the petstorev3.json specification.

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Linting multiple files

From v0.5.0+ The lint command accepts multiple OpenAPI files as inputs, either as a glob pattern, or as a list of files.

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Or as a glob pattern

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Available Flags

lint supports the following flags

Short Full Input Description
-d –details bool Show full details of the linting report
-c –category string Used with -d, Show a single category of results
-e –errors bool Used with -d, Show only reported errors
-x –silent bool Show no output, except for the linting result
-s –snippets bool Used with -d, shows highlighted code in console
-n –fail-severity string Set the level at which an error return code is thrown (defaults to error)
-q –no-style bool Disable color and style console output (useful for CI/CD)
-h –help bool Show help screen and all flag details

Global Flags

lint supports the following global flags

Short Full Input Description
-r –ruleset string Use an existing ruleset file for linting
-t –time bool Show how long it took to lint the spec in (ms)
-p –base string Base URL or Base working directory to use for relative references
-u –remote string Load remote references automatically if possible (default is true)
-k –skip-check string Skip checking for a valid OpenAPI document, useful for linting fragments or non-OpenAPI documents

Full flags begin with a double hyphen.

Examples

Want something easy to copy and paste?

Using an existing RuleSet

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Single category

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Single category with snippets

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Only show errors

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