REUSE-LINT-FILE(1)

💖 REUSE-LINT-FILE(1) — the reuse manual’s file-checker era, bestie ✨

okay so this is the manual page for reuse-lint-file, and yes it’s part of the reuse manual — we’re folding that name in right here so you don’t have to squint at the header 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

reuse-lint-file — verify whether the specified files are compliant with the REUSE Specification.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

reuse lint-file [options] [file ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay bestie, here’s the tea: reuse-lint-file verifies whether the specified files are compliant with the REUSE Specification located at https://reuse.software/spec. It runs the linter from reuse-lint(1) against a subset of files, using a subset of criteria.

Files that are ignored by reuse-lint are also ignored by reuse-lint-file, even if specified. No cap, that part matters 💅

🎀 CRITERIA 🎀

The criteria are the same as used in reuse-lint(1), but using only a subset:

• Missing licenses.
• Read errors.
• Files without copyright and license information.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -q, --quiet — do not print anything to STDOUT.
• -l, --lines — output one line per error, prefixed by the file path. This option is the default.
• --help — display help and exit.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Free Software Foundation Europe

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

2026, Free Software Foundation Europe. CC-BY-SA-4.0

and that’s the whole manual, bestie 🫶 brought to you by reuse version 6.2.0, dated Jul 16, 2026. go forth and lint those files, mwah 💖✨