Document conventions, Text formatting, Command syntax conventions – Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual
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Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:
Command syntax conventions
Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions:
Notes and cautions
The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of
increasing severity of potential hazards.
NOTE
A note provides a tip, guidance or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference
to related information.
CAUTION
A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you or cause
damage to hardware, firmware, software, or data.
bold text
Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text
Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies document titles
code
text
Identifies CLI output
command and
parameters
Commands and parameters are printed in bold.
[ ]
Optional parameter.
variable
Variables are printed in italics enclosed in angled brackets < >.
...
Repeat the previous element, for example “member[;member...]”
|
Choose from one of the parameters.