The following typographical conventions are used in this guide:
> command arg ...
A command, typed by the user, and its output. The
“>
” character is
the command prompt.
command
The name of a program, when used in a sentence, rather than in literal input or output.
literal
Text provided to or received from a computer program.
placeholder
Text that should be replaced with an appropriate value when typing a command.
\
At the end of a line in command or program examples, indicates that a long line of literal input or output continues onto the next line in the document.