RUDOF(1)

💖 RUDOF(1) — rudof shacl 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the rudof shacl manual page, part of the User Commands crew. this one's your little backstage pass to SHACL shapes — let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

rudof shacl — show information about SHACL shapes. The SHACL schema can be passed through the data options or the optional schema options to provide an interface similar to Shacl-validate. periodt 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rudof shacl [OPTIONS] [DATA]...

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So like. rudof shacl shows information about SHACL shapes. And the whole vibe is: the SHACL schema can be passed through the data options, OR through the optional schema options, so you get an interface that feels just like Shacl-validate. both routes are valid, bestie, you pick 🫶

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🌈 Arguments: 🌈

• [DATA]... — yeah, that's your data. it's optional (hence the lil brackets 🥺) and you can pass more than one.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -t, --data-format <FORMAT> — the RDF Data format. defaults to turtle, and the possible values are: turtle, ntriples, rdfxml, trig, n3, nquads, jsonld, pg ⭐
• --reader-mode <MODE> — the RDF Reader mode. defaults to strict, possible values: lax, strict.
• -s, --shapes <INPUT> — the Shapes graph. can be a File, a URI, or - for stdin. if you don't set it, it just assumes the shapes come from the data. no cap, it's flexible like that 💅
• -f, --shapes-format <FORMAT> — the Shapes file format. defaults to turtle, possible values: internal, turtle, ntriples, rdfxml, trig, n3, nquads, jsonld. (heads up: pg is not in this list, that's a data-format thing, ok bestie 🫶)
• --base-shapes <IRI> — Base RDF Data (used to resolve relative IRIs in Shapes). yes, the help text literally says "Base RDF Data" for the shapes one too — we don't make the rules, we just report them 🙈
• --base-data <IRI> — Base RDF Data, used to resolve relative IRIs in RDF data.
• -r, --result-shapes-format <FORMAT> — the Result shapes format. defaults to internal, possible values: internal, turtle, ntriples, rdfxml, trig, n3, nquads, jsonld.
• -c, --config-file <FILE> — the Config file name.
• -o, --output-file <FILE> — the Output file name. default = terminal, so if you say nothing it just vibes right there in your shell 🖥️✨
• --force-overwrite — Force overwrite to output file if it already exists. as in, it will absolutely body whatever was there before 💀
• --backend <BACKEND> — Choose which RDF data backend to load the input into.
  • memory (default): parse into an in-process oxrdf::Graph.
  • qlever: launch a local QLever Docker container and index the input on disk. Requires the binary to be built with the qlever feature.
  • endpoint=<URL_OR_NAME>: query an external SPARQL endpoint by URL or by the name of an endpoint registered in the TOML config. See also the --endpoint / -e shortcut.
• -e, --endpoint <URL_OR_NAME> — Shortcut for --backend endpoint=<URL_OR_NAME>.

Accepts either a full SPARQL endpoint URL or the name of an endpoint registered in the TOML config. Mutually exclusive with --backend — so like, pick one, you can't have both, it's giving "choose your fighter" 😤

• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with '-h'). iconic behavior, honestly 👑

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⚠️ bestie warning: --endpoint and --backend are mutually exclusive. don't try to run them both, that's not the move. 💀

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay so. there's no SEE ALSO section in this one. the page just ends. respectfully, it ate and left no crumbs 🍓

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! you're gonna slay so hard with rudof shacl 🌈🔥

this was rudof shacl version 0.3.8+ds, dated August 2026 — love that for us, fr fr. go forth and shape your SHACL 💖💅✨