vale Command Examples

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

• 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