command line use

[roedygr]

Is there a way from the command line to load up a file, check it, and exit with a ret code that tells you how bad the file was?

Sometimes you want to load and validate. Others load validate and exit, or at least exit if all is Ok.

[Albert Wiersch]

Yes, please see the "Exit Codes/Return Values" section here:
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/htmlval/v9 ... d_line.htm

Take a look at the -rx option. It can return the number of errors or errors+warnings.

[roedygr]

Is there a way from the command line to load up a file, check it, and exit with a ret code that tells you how bad the file was?

Sometimes you want to load and validate. Others load validate and exit, or at least exit if all is Ok.

It would be nice if one of these simple forms worked too:

"F:\Program Files (x86)\HTMLValidator90\cmdlineprocessor.exe" E:\mindprod\livinglove\methods\*.html

"F:\Program Files (x86)\HTMLValidator90\cmdlineprocessor.exe" E:\mindprod\livinglove\methods\

Because you don't always have a script ready for every directory you may be working on.

Think of it as a shortcut for building a batch script with one directory in it.

[Albert Wiersch]

It would be nice if one of these simple forms worked too:

"F:\Program Files (x86)\HTMLValidator90\cmdlineprocessor.exe" E:\mindprod\livinglove\methods\*.html

"F:\Program Files (x86)\HTMLValidator90\cmdlineprocessor.exe" E:\mindprod\livinglove\methods\

Because you don't always have a script ready for every directory you may be working on.

Think of it as a shortcut for building a batch script with one directory in it.

Thanks. That sounds like a good suggestion so I've made a note about it and may look into for a future version.