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## 25.2. Passing options and arguments

Passing options and arguments to your commands is very similar to many CLI commands in an *nix environment. Options are prefixed with a `-` and can contain one or more options. Some options expect a value to be associated with it. Arguments are string values which aren’t prefixed with `-`. Let’s look at `ls` as an example:

`ls -r -f KNOWS:out -v 12345` will make a verbose listing of node `12345`'s outgoing relationships of type `KNOWS`. The node id, `12345`, is an argument to `ls` which tells it to do the listing on that node instead of the current node (see `pwd` command). However a shorter version of this can be written:

`ls -rfv KNOWS:out 12345`. Here all three options are written together after a single `-` prefix. Even though `f` is in the middle it gets associated with the `KNOWS:out` value. The reason for this is that the `ls` command doesn’t expect any values associated with the `r` or `v` options. So, it can infer the right values for the rights options.

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