initd-lint(1)

💅 initd-lint(1) — from the General Commands Manual section, bestie 🎀

okay so picture this: you've got a linter, and it's specifically for openrc init files that ship with Alpine Linux. yes, that very specific. and yes, it's iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

initd-lint — a linter for openrc init files shipped with Alpine Linux. that's the whole gig. she checks your init files so you don't have to 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

initd-lint <initd...>

literally just hand her one or more init files and let her cook ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

initd-lint is a linter for openrc init files shipped with Alpine Linux 💅 if you wanna know what each individual violation actually means, go read alint(5) under the initd-lint section — that's where every single check is explained, no cap.

here's the vibe check on how she reports back: initd-lint will print the policy violations she found, and then exit 1. and if she finds no violations? nothing gets printed at all — silence, gorgeous, main character energy — and she exits 0 🦋

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👑 OUTPUT 👑

whenever a policy violation gets found, initd-lint prints to stdout, in exactly this format:

SEVERITYCERTAINITY:[TAG]:PATH::MSG

and here's what every piece of that means, bestie:

• SEVERITY — how severe the violation is, ranging from S to M. so like, the drama level 😭
• CERTAINITY — how likely it is that this isn't a false positive, ranging from C to P. (yes, that's spelled CERTAINITY in the original, we don't fix it, we respect it 💀)
• TAG — the tag of the violation. alint(5) has the details, go look 👀
• PATH — the path given for apkbuild-lint to check. (that's what the manpage says, fr fr — quoting it exactly 🍓)
• MSG — a short little message so us humans can tell what the violation actually is 🌸

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

maintained by Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> — shoutout to the maintainer, keeping the vibes clean since forever 💜

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• alint(5)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🧚 this lil beauty is dated 2026-10-14 and lives in the initd-lint(1) corner of the General Commands Manual — go lint something pretty, mwah 💋✨