hlint - Man Page

• Display suggestions for a given file: hlint path/to/file options
• Check all Haskell files and generate a report: hlint path/to/directory --report
• Automatically apply most suggestions: hlint path/to/file --refactor
• Display additional options: hlint path/to/file --refactor-options
• Generate a settings file ignoring all outstanding hints: hlint path/to/file --default > .hlint.yaml

tldr.sh

hlint [files/directories] [options]

HLint is a tool for suggesting possible improvements to Haskell code. These suggestions include ideas such as using alternative functions, simplifying code and spotting redundancies.

-? --help

Display help message

-v --version

Display version information

-r[file] --report[=file]

Generate a report in HTML

-h file --hint=file

Hint/ignore file to use

-c --color,  --colour

Color the output (requires ANSI terminal)

-i message --ignore=message

Ignore a particular hint

-s --show

Show all ignored ideas

-t --test

Run in test mode

"To check all Haskell files in 'src' and generate a report type:"

hlint src --report

The full documentation for HLint is available in /usr/share/doc/hlint/hlint.html.

This   manual   page   was  written  by  Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).