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Using unix commands, Typographic conventions – Sun Microsystems X1150A User Manual

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Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003

Using UNIX Commands

This document may not contain information on basic UNIX

®

commands and

procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring
devices.

See one or more of the following for this information:

Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals

AnswerBook2™ online documentation for the Solaris™ operating environment

Other software documentation that you received with your system

Typographic Conventions

Typeface

Meaning

Examples

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files,
and directories; on-screen
computer output

Edit your

.login

file.

Use

ls -a

to list all files.

% You have mail

.

AaBbCc123

What you type, when
contrasted with on-screen
computer output

%

su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms,
words to be emphasized

Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be superuser to do this.

Command-line variable; replace
with a real name or value

To delete a file, type

rm

filename.