Typographic Conventions

A man page. The man page name is audit, and it is located in Section 5.

A command name or qualified command phrase.

Text displayed by the computer.

The name of an environment variable, for example, PATH.

The name of an error, usually returned in the errno variable.

The name of a keyboard key. Return and Enter both refer to the same key.

Commands and other text that you type.

The name of a placeholder in a command, function, or other syntax display that you replace with an actual value.

The preceding element can be repeated an arbitrary number of times. A vertical ellipsis indicates the continuation of a code example.

Separates items in a list of choices.