lintool

lintool is a lint tool for project source code.

About openHoles

openHoles is an open source organization focusing on peer-to-peer solutions, find more information here

Install

go install github.com/openholes/lintool@latest

Usage

Use the -h parameter to obtain usage help.

> lintool -h
lintool is a lint tool

Usage:
  lintool [command]

Examples:
lintool blankline

Available Commands:
  blankline   check if file ends with a blank line
  license     check if the source code files have a license header
  help        Help about any command

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for lintool

Use "lintool [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Use the blankline command to detect blank lines in files.

> lintool blankline -h
check if file ends with a blank line

Usage:
  lintool blankline [flags]

Aliases:
  blankline, bl

Examples:
lintool bl -d . -e .idea,testdata

Flags:
  -d, --directory string   directory to check (default ".")
  -e, --exclude strings    directories or files to exclude (comma-separated)
  -h, --help               help for blankline

> # check /tmp/demo directory and exclude .idea
> lintool blankline -d /tmp/demo -e .idea
the following files are not end with a blank line:
testdata/blankline/noline.txt
2025/03/30 19:12:59 ERROR lintool execute failed reason="blank line issue found"
exit status 1

Use the license command to detect license header in files.

> lintool license -h
check if the source code files have a license header

Usage:
  lintool license [flags]

Aliases:
  license, lic

Examples:
lintool lic -d . -e .idea,testdata

Flags:
  -d, --directory string     directory to check (default ".")
  -e, --exclude strings      directories or files to exclude (comma-separated)
  -x, --extensions strings   file extension to check, if not set, all files will be checked (comma-separated)
  -h, --help                 help for license
  -l, --license string       license file to use, if no license file is found and this flag is not set, process will be skipped, support [Apache-2.0, MIT, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, LGPL, MPL, BSD]

> # check /tmp/demo directory and exclude .idea
> lintool license -d /tmp/demo -e .idea
the following files are not end with a blank line:
testdata/blankline/noline.txt
2025/03/30 19:12:59 ERROR lintool execute failed reason="blank line issue found"
exit status 1

License

openHoles is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Refer to LICENSE for more details.