Running Linux, Third Edition

Conventions Used in This Book

The following is a list of the typographical conventions used in this book:

Bold

is used for machine names, hostnames, usernames, and IDs.

Italic

is used for file and directory names, program and command names, command-line options, email addresses and pathnames, site names, and new terms.

Constant Width

is used in examples to show the contents of files or the output from commands, to indicate environment variables and keywords that appear in code, and for Emacs commands.

Constant Italic

is used to indicate variable options, keywords, or text that the user is to replace with an actual value.

Constant Bold

is used in examples to show commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.

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