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MegaLinter Runner

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This package allows to run MegaLinter locally before running it in your CD/CI workflow, or simply to locally apply reformatting and fixes without having to install up to date linters for your files

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Installation

Pre-requisites

You need to have NodeJS and Docker installed on your computer to run MegaLinter locally with MegaLinter Runner

Global installation

npm install mega-linter-runner -g

Local installation

npm install mega-linter-runner --save-dev

No installation

You can run mega-linter-runner without installation by using npx

Example:

npx mega-linter-runner -r beta -e "'ENABLE=MARKDOWN,YAML'" -e 'SHOW_ELAPSED_TIME=true'

Pre-commit hook

You can run mega-linter-runner as a pre-commit hook

Sample .pre-commit-config.yaml:

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter
    rev: v6.8.0 # Git tag specifying the hook, not mega-linter-runner, version
    hooks:
      - id: megalinter-incremental # Faster, less thorough
        stages:
          - commit
      - id: megalinter-full # Slower, more thorough
        stages:
          - push

See .pre-commit-hooks.yaml for more details.

Usage

mega-linter-runner [OPTIONS] [FILES]

The options are only related to mega-linter-runner. For MegaLinter options, please use a .mega-linter.yml configuration file

Option Description Default
-p
--path		 Directory containing the files to lint current directory
-f
--flavor		 Set this parameter to use a MegaLinter flavor all
-d
--image		 You can override the used docker image, including if it is on another docker registry
-e
--env		 Environment variables for MegaLinter, following format 'ENV_VAR_NAME=VALUE' for a single value or "'ENV_VAR_NAME=VALUE1,VALUE2'" for a list of values
Warning: Quotes are mandatory
--fix Automatically apply formatting and fixes in your files
-r
--release		 Allows to override MegaLinter version used v5
-h
--help		 Show mega-linter-runner help
-v
--version		 Show mega-linter-runner version
-i
--install		 Generate MegaLinter configuration files
--container-name Specify MegaLinter container name
--remove-container Remove MegaLinter Docker container when done

You can also use npx mega-linter-runner if you do not want to install the package

Examples

mega-linter-runner

mega-linter-runner -p myFolder --fix

mega-linter-runner -r beta -e "'ENABLE=MARKDOWN,YAML'" -e 'SHOW_ELAPSED_TIME=true'

mega-linter-runner --flavor python --release beta --filesonly path/to/my/file1.py another/path/to/a/file.js and/another/file.py

Configuration

You can generate a ready-to-use .mega-linter.yml configuration file by running npx mega-linter-runner --install at the root of your repository

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