Examples (4)
Lint a file or directory recursively
flake8 path/to/file_or_directoryLint a file or directory recursively and show the line on which each error occurred
flake8 --show-source path/to/file_or_directoryLint a file or directory recursively and ignore a list of rules. (All available rules can be found at <https://www.flake8rules.com/>)
flake8 --ignore rule1,rule2,... path/to/file_or_directoryLint a file or directory recursively but exclude files matching the given globs or substrings
flake8 --exclude substring1,glob2 path/to/file_or_directorymade by @shridhargupta | data from tldr-pages