Typographic conventions, Shell prompts – Sun Microsystems SunSwift SPARCcenter 2000 User Manual
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SunSwift SBus Adapter Installation and User’s Guide—December 1995
Typographic Conventions
The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Shell Prompts
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt
for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Typeface or
Symbol
Meaning
Example
AaBbCc123
The names of commands,
files, and directories;
on-screen computer output
Edit your
.login
file.
Use
ls -a
to list all files.
machine_name% You have mail.
AaBbCc123
What you type, contrasted
with on-screen computer
output
machine_name% su
Password:
AaBbCc123
Command-line placeholder:
replace with a real name or
value
To delete a file, type
rm
filename.
AaBbCc123
Book titles, new words or
terms, or words to be
emphasized
Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be root to do this.
Shell
Prompt
C shell
machine_name%
C shell superuser
machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell
$
Bourne shell and Korn shell
superuser
#