Typographical Conventions

This tutorial on programming will follow a number of typographical conventions:

• Ctrl - will be used to indicate a key on the keyboard. In this case, the control key. In places where there is more than one character on a key, the relevant character will be used. If Shift is necessary to produce it, then use the shift key to produce it - it will be left as understood in this tutorial.
• cp * /tmp/ - will be used to indicate commands to type in at the command shell. They are to be typed in exactly as they are shown. The command prompt will be omitted from the commands, but will appear on your terminal. You should type the commands in after the command prompt.
• 8:06pm up 33 min, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.13, 0.10 - Will be used to indicate the ouput of commands.