1.2. Document conventions

This Debian Reference provides information through short bash shell commands.

Here are the conventions used:

     # command in root account
     $ command in user account
     ... description of action

These shell command examples use PS2=" ". See Bash – GNU standard interactive shell, Section 13.2.1 for more information on bash.

Reference to:

• a UNIX-style manual page is given in the form: bash(1).

• a GNU TEXINFO page is given in the form: info libc.

• a book is given in the form: The C Programming Language.

• a URL is given in the form: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/.

• a file on the system is given in the form: file:///usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/.

The following abbreviations are used:

• LDP: Linux Documentation Project (http://www.tldp.org/)

• DDP: Debian Documentation Project (http://www.debian.org/doc/)

Other abbreviations are defined in the text before they are used.

In this document only URL references are given for LDP documents. However, LDP documents have been packaged for Debian; when the packages are installed the documents are available in file:///usr/share/doc/HOWTO/.

See References, Section 15.1.

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