Shell prompts, Typographic conventions, Shell prompts typographic conventions – Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V20z User Manual

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Shell Prompts

Typographic Conventions

Shell

Prompt

C shell

machine-name

%

C shell superuser

machine-name

#

Bourne shell and Korn shell

$

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser

#

Typeface

*

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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.
Replace command-line variables
with real names or values.

Read Chapter 6 in the

User’s Guide

.

These are called

class

options.

You

must

be superuser to do this.

To delete a file, type

rm

filename

.

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