Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The entire configuration of the virtual machine is specified in the .vmx file".

A block of code is set as follows:

# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
encoding="UTF-8"
CID=bb3b482f
parentCID=ffffffff

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

    inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that ...

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