v8.5.0

Changes

Features

feat: Add `--file [files...]` command line option to lint command. (#5328)

feat: Add --file [files...] command line option to lint command. (#5328)

fixes: #5225

Options:

• --file and --files - specify files to be checked

--file [files...], alias --files.

The --file option enables specifying which files to check. This is useful when the list is generated by another process and --file-list is not a good fit.

The files will be filtered by [globs...] or cspellConfig.files if the [globs...] were not specified.

Usage:

cspell.config.yaml

files:
  - '**/*.md'
ignorePaths:
  - 'CHANGELOG.md'

Command:

cspell --files README.md CHANGELOG.md LICENSE

Result:
It will only check README.md because LICENSE does not match *.md and CHANGELOG.md is excluded by ignorePaths.

Command Line Only
The same effect can be achieved on the command line:

cspell "*.md" --exclude CHANGELOG.md --files README.md CHANGELOG.md LICENSE
- or -
cspell --exclude CHANGELOG.md --files README.md CHANGELOG.md LICENSE -- "*.md"

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