My objective is to run sonar scan and provide early feed back on defects without uploading scan result to sonar server.
I am planning to use sonarlint-cli to scan code as soon as Git merge request is crated. This will help me to report issues early without running full sonar scan.
I already have multiple module sonar-project.properties at the root folder of source code.
Can I use same sonar-project.properties with sonarlint-cli?
No it's not possible to feed sonarlint-cli with sonar-project.properties. You must use a dedicated sonarlint.json configuration file. See http://www.sonarlint.org/commandline/index.html