Splitting Long Drake Steps Across Multiple Lines

[Michael Smith]

In a shell script, I can wrap long commands into several lines by adding `\` at the line end. Is there something similar in Drake? (I tried `\`, but got an error.)

I'm asking since, for example, if I have a lot of data files in a given step, it would be nice to be able to split them across several lines, e.g. something like this: 

outfile <- \

  infile0 \

  infile1 

    myscript.sh $INPUT0 $INPUT1 $OUTPUT

Thanks,

M

[Michael Smith]

To answer my own question: 

outfile <- infile1,

             infile2,

             infile3

    myscript.sh $INPUT0 $INPUT1 $INPUT2 $OUTPUT

By the way, the more I use Drake, the more I like it (and I liked it from the beginning as well). 

Thank you guys for providing such an awesome tool! 

[Aaron Crow]

Hi Michael, currently no support for this. I've opened a ticket, but this may be treated as very low priority.

https://github.com/Factual/drake/issues/147

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[aa...@factual.com]

Michael, thanks for the kind words. Also, totally my bad, I didn't realize the comma syntax works currently. FWIW we're tinkering with supporting \ as well:
https://github.com/Factual/drake/issues/147

[Michael Smith]

Great, thanks for the quick fix! I think the backslash can be quite
useful in other cases as well.