G'Day,
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:44:53PM -0400, Blake wrote:
> What's our convention in Solaris docs for showing command line entries? Do
> we use a generic prompt marker, or just list the commands?
Use a prompt marker - it is a useful way to differentiate root/non-root
commands.
There is a convention listed at the start of most docs.sun.com books,
C shell machine_name%
C shell for superuser machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell $
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser #
Which makes sense (or made sense in 1990, before bash/zsh ;).
The following is what I use anyway,
root #
non-root $
and if the example is switching between hosts,
root hostname#
non-root hostname$
and if the example is moving around different directories,
root pathname#
non-root pathname$
Brendan
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Brendan
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