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Sun StorEdge A3500 Hardware Configuration Guide • September 1998

Typographic Conventions

Shell Prompts

TABLE P-1

Typographic Conventions

Typeface or
Symbol

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

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

root

to do this.

To delete a file, type

rm

filename.

TABLE P-2

Shell Prompts

Shell

Prompt

C shell

machine_name

%

C shell superuser

machine_name

#

Bourne shell and Korn shell

$

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser

#