Command Syntax

Throughout this course, you'll see commands written like this:

command <required> [optional]

• Arguments in angle brackets <> are mandatory and must be provided when running the command.
• Arguments in square brackets [] are optional and can be included if needed.

For example, to create a new directory in your terminal, you would run:

mkdir <directory-name>

• mkdir is the command
• <directory-name> is a required argument