UNIX commands font

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Wed Feb 13 15:33:31 PST 2013


On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> Something you see a lot is marking prompts with "$>" or some other
> character combination to denote that the line was typed by the user.
> The hash (#) often represents super-user commands, while the dollar sign
> is used for standard user commands, e.g.:
> 
> $> sudo -s
> Password:
> #> id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),80(admin)
> #> exit
> $>

Indeed. I even managed to do this in my example without thinking to point it out. *sigh*

vq


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