Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

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Preface

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Conventions

This desktop quick reference follows certain typographic conventions:

Bold

Used for commands, programs, and options. All terms shown in bold are

typed literally.

Italic

Used to show arguments and variables that should be replaced with user-

supplied values. Italic is also used to introduce new terms, indicate filenames

and directories, and to highlight comments in examples.

Constant Width

Used to show the contents of files or the output from commands.

Constant Width Bold

Used in examples to show commands or other text that should be typed liter-

ally by the user.

Constant Width Italic

Used in examples to show text that should be replaced with user-supplied

values.

$ Used in some examples as the bash shell prompt ($).

[ ] Surround optional elements in a description of syntax. (The brackets them-

selves should never be typed.) Note that ...