---
name: "KWStyle"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kwstyle"
version: "1.1.0~git20200506.b253a2b-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/KWStyle"
---

# KWStyle(1)

Style checker for source code

## NAME

KWStyle - Style checker for source code

## SYNOPSIS

**KWStyle**\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **KWStyle** command.

You can find information on the KWStyle web page at https://kitware.github.io/KWStyle/.

## OPTIONS

- **-d**

  Specify a directory.

- **-R**

  Associated with -d: recurse through directories.

- **-v**

  Display errors.

- **-qv**

  Display less information.

- **-lesshtml**

  Display less HTML.

- **-vim**

  Generate errors as VIM format.

- **-msvc**

  Generate errors as MSVC format.

- **-gcc**

  Generate errors as GCC format.

- **-html \[filename\]**

  Generate the HTML report.

- **-cvs**

  Using KWStyle as a cvs precommit script.

- **-exporthtml**

  Export the HTML report online.

- **-xml \[filename\]**

  Read a XML configure file.

- **-exportxml \[filename\]**

  Write output the report as a simple XML.

- **-o \[filename\]**

  Overwrite rules file.

- **-D**

  Specify a file listing all the directories.

- **-B \[filename\]**

  Specify the base directory of the file.

- **-b \[filename\]**

  Specify a black list of words.

**-dart \<filename\> \[maxerror\] \[group\]**

Write out files to be send to the dart server. With: maxerror (Default = -1) With: group (Default = 0)

- **-kwsurl \<url\>**

  Specify the base url of the KWStyle HTML report.

- **-fix**

  Write out a fixed version of the parsed file.

**\<infile\>**

input filename

## SEE ALSO

List of KWStyle features at https://kitware.github.io/KWStyle/resources/features.html.

## AUTHOR

Julien Jomier

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre \<malat@debian.org\> and Benjamin Eikel \<debian@eikel.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).