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Typographic conventions, Shell prompts – Sun Microsystems SunSwift SPARCcenter 2000 User Manual

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SunSwift SBus Adapter Installation and User’s GuideDecember 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

#

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