====== Command Line Interface (CLI) Manual ======
Work in Progress
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===== Intended Audience =====
This guide is intended to help new Linux users understand the power of the shell, and how to use it to enhance their productivity or just have a little more fun with their Linux based installation.
Experienced users can also use this guide to learn new tricks or just serve as a reference for little used functions.
===== Conventions Used =====
The following conventions are used to format the contents of this guide.
Content contributors can see the flags in the source of this page.
* **Emphasis** \\ All emphasized text will be presented in **BOLD** text.
* Footnotes((this is a footnote)) \\ Footnotes will be noted ((like this))
* ''Filenames'' \\ All filenames including references to filename will be ''monospaced'' text.
* __Application__ \\ All application names and references to application manuals will be __underlined__.
* **//Commands//** \\ All commands and optional arguments will be represented in **//bold + italic//** text. \\ When a command contains output, it will be displayed in a code block, user executed command will be displayed with the "$" prompt such as user@darkstar:~$pwd
/home/user \\ root executed command will be displayed with a "#" prompt such as root@darkstar:~#pwd
/home/root
* File Contents \\ All file contents will be displayed in unformatted content boxes like: \\ This is a file
Yes, it is a file
* Code \\ All scripts and code will be presented in a code box, in which the text will be formatted with color when available such as is displayed below. echo "This is sample code"
* Notes \\ All notes about use will be presented in note boxes, we will be using note, important and warning boxes as shown below.
This is a Note
This is an important note
This is a warning note
**Author Notes** \\
When applying content you can choose to omit formatting characters with two percent symbols to display the text as displayed below.
http:%%//docs.slackware.com
will properly display a web address since the double forward slashes are normally used to make text italic.
Please document the source with internal questions and placeholders to note your intentions, this is accomplished with the start and end flags as shown in