Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V100 manual Typographic Conventions, Shell Prompts

Typographic Conventions

Typeface Meaning Examples

AaBbCc123 The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output

Edit your .login file. Use ls -ato list all files. % You have mail.

AaBbCc123 What you type, when	% su
contrasted with on-screen	Password:
computer output

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 superuser to do this.

To delete a file, type rm filename.

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name%
C shell superuser	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	#
LOM shell	lom>
OBP	ok

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