Typographical Conventions
All of the program listings, UNIX commands, library functions, and system calls are displayed in a fixed-width font as shown here.
Many examples are shown that have required keyboard input. In such cases, all input is shown in a bold, fixed-width font. Commands entered by the superuser are prefixed with the # prompt while those commands which do not require superuser privileges are prefixed with the $ prompt.
Shown below is an example of user input:
$ ls -l myfile
-rw-r--r- 1 spate fcf 0 Feb 16 11:14 myfile
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