What Typographic Changes Mean

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, as contrasted with on-screen computer output 

% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value 

To delete a file, type rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, or emphasized words 

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. These are called class options.

You must be root to do this.

AaBbCc123 \ aabbccdd

Continuation of a single line of code 

set path=(install-directory/\

SUNWspro/bin \

$path)