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bold font
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Commands, keywords, GUI elements, and user-entered text appear
in
bold font.
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italic font
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Document titles, new or emphasized terms, and arguments for
which you supply values are in
italic font.
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courierfont
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Terminal sessions and information that the system displays appear in courier font.
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[ ]
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Elements in square brackets are optional.
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{x | y | z}
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Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and
separated by vertical bars.
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[x | y | z]
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Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and
separated by vertical bars.
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string
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A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks
around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.
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< >
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Nonprinting characters such as passwords are in angle
brackets.
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[ ]
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Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.
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!, #
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An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning
of a line of code indicates a comment line.
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