1.2 Document conventions
This Debian Reference provides information through short bash
shell commands. Here are the conventions used:
# command in root account
$ command in user account
... description of action
These shell command examples use PS2=" ". See Bash – GNU standard
interactive shell, Section 13.2.1 for more information on
bash.
Reference to:
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a UNIX-style manual page is given in the form:
bash(1).
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a GNU TEXINFO page is given in the form: info
libc.
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a book is given in the form: The C Programming
Language.
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a URL is given in the form: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/.
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a file on the system is given in the form:
/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/.
The following abbreviations are used:
Other abbreviations are defined in the text before they are used.
In this document only URL references are given for LDP documents. However, LDP
documents have been packaged for Debian; when the packages are installed the
documents are available in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/.
See
References, Section 15.1.
