bash Commands

• The general structure: <command> <flags + flag args> <command args>
  • command: What to do
  • flags + flag args: Options for the command and options for those options
  • command args: arguments to pass to the command

Listing files in the current directory

We want to list files in the specified directory. The bash command to list files is ls.

R

• command: list.files()
• flags + flag args: all.files = TRUE
• command args: ".github"

list.files(".github", all.files = TRUE)

## [1] "."          ".."         ".gitignore" "workflows"

bash

• command: ls
• flags + flag args: -a
• command args: .github

ls -a .github

## .
## ..
## .gitignore
## workflows

Long Commands

• Long commands are split onto multiple lines with a trailing backslash

this is a \
  really really \
  long command