Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:51:26 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409271049010.18150@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040926121123.40fa439b.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <BAY14-F41WRk48oryEu00004841@hotmail.com> <20040926121123.40fa439b.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Bill Moran wrote: > "raju raju" <rajunpl@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > % man 1 chmo > > > > whaT does (%) sign means here? root ,user or something else? > > % is the prompt. In the FreeBSD docs, the % prompt means the example was > done as root, while the $ prompt means that the example was done as a > normal user. In the handbook (and wider, conventionally), "#" is used as the root prompt*; "%" or "$" are non-root prompts. (The percent is often used to suggest a csh-type shell and the dollar sign for a sh-derived shell.) jan * at least in the bits I've flicked to at random to check. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Political talk? / What is said can be unsaid / with good old BS -- ASCII haiku
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