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UNIX Tutorial: Typographical Conventions

This document provides a UNIX tutorial that outlines typographical conventions for commands, file names, and keyboard inputs. It explains that commands in bold text should be typed exactly as shown, file names in italic text are variable, and keys in brackets, like Enter, indicate what keyboard button to press. Directories and file names are case-sensitive in UNIX, unlike DOS and Windows, so the same name with different cases would be different files.

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UNIX Tutorial: Typographical Conventions

This document provides a UNIX tutorial that outlines typographical conventions for commands, file names, and keyboard inputs. It explains that commands in bold text should be typed exactly as shown, file names in italic text are variable, and keys in brackets, like Enter, indicate what keyboard button to press. Directories and file names are case-sensitive in UNIX, unlike DOS and Windows, so the same name with different cases would be different files.

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UNIX Tutorial
Typographical conventions
In what follows, we shall use the following typographical conventions:

Characters written in bold typewriter font are commands to be typed into the computer as they stand. Characters written in italic typewriter font indicate non-specific file or directory names. Words inserted within square brackets [Ctrl] indicate keys to be pressed.

So, for example, % ls anydirectory [Enter] means "at the UNIX prompt %, type ls followed by the name of some directory, then press the key marked Enter" Dont forget to press the [Enter] key: commands are not sent to the computer until this is done. Note: UNIX is case-sensitve, so LS is not the same as ls. The same applies to filenames, so myfile.txt, MyFile.txt and MYFILE.TXT are three seperate files. Beware if copying files to a PC, since DOS and Windows do not make this distinction.

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07/11/2013

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