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+Quickstart
+==========
+
+Installing yamllint
+-------------------
+
+On Fedora / CentOS (note: `EPEL <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/>`_ is
+required on CentOS):
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ sudo dnf install yamllint
+
+On Debian 8+ / Ubuntu 16.04+:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ sudo apt-get install yamllint
+
+On Mac OS 10.11+:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ brew install yamllint
+
+On FreeBSD:
+
+.. code:: sh
+
+  pkg install py36-yamllint
+
+On OpenBSD:
+
+.. code:: sh
+
+  doas pkg_add py3-yamllint
+
+Alternatively using pip, the Python package manager:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ pip install --user yamllint
+
+If you prefer installing from source, you can run, from the source directory:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ python -m build
+ pip install --user dist/yamllint-*.tar.gz
+
+Running yamllint
+----------------
+
+Basic usage:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ yamllint file.yml other-file.yaml
+
+You can also lint all YAML files in a whole directory:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ yamllint .
+
+Or lint a YAML stream from standard input:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ echo -e 'this: is\nvalid: YAML' | yamllint -
+
+The output will look like (colors are not displayed here):
+
+::
+
+ file.yml
+   1:4       error    trailing spaces  (trailing-spaces)
+   4:4       error    wrong indentation: expected 4 but found 3  (indentation)
+   5:4       error    duplication of key "id-00042" in mapping  (key-duplicates)
+   6:6       warning  comment not indented like content  (comments-indentation)
+   12:6      error    too many spaces after hyphen  (hyphens)
+   15:12     error    too many spaces before comma  (commas)
+
+ other-file.yaml
+   1:1       warning  missing document start "---"  (document-start)
+   6:81      error    line too long (87 > 80 characters)  (line-length)
+   10:1      error    too many blank lines (4 > 2)  (empty-lines)
+   11:4      error    too many spaces inside braces  (braces)
+
+By default, the output of yamllint is colored when run from a terminal, and
+pure text in other cases. Add the ``-f standard`` arguments to force
+non-colored output. Use the ``-f colored`` arguments to force colored output.
+
+Add the ``-f parsable`` arguments if you need an output format parsable by a
+machine (for instance for :doc:`syntax highlighting in text editors
+<text_editors>`). The output will then look like:
+
+::
+
+ file.yml:6:2: [warning] missing starting space in comment (comments)
+ file.yml:57:1: [error] trailing spaces (trailing-spaces)
+ file.yml:60:3: [error] wrong indentation: expected 4 but found 2 (indentation)
+
+If you have a custom linting configuration file (see :doc:`how to configure
+yamllint <configuration>`), it can be passed to yamllint using the ``-c``
+option:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ yamllint -c ~/myconfig file.yaml
+
+.. note::
+
+   If you have a ``.yamllint`` file in your working directory, it will be
+   automatically loaded as configuration by yamllint.