prompts in command examples

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 07:35 +0530, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" wrote:
> Murray McAllister wrote:
> 
> > The Red Hat documentation team recently had a discussion about using
> > prompts (such as "$" and "#") in command examples.
> 
> If this is based on the feedback that a lot of users copy-paste the
> commands into their shells and receive an error stating that the prompt
> shouldn't be in, then it makes sense to remove the prompt and add
> comments/narration.
> 
> However, this does bring out a separate point altogether - aren't users
> expected to *not* do copy-paste and type in the commands (for better
> learning etc etc) ? :)

We actually discussed the value of leaving the root # in use as a filter
against people who shouldn't be doing commands as root. :)

- Karsten
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