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Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Sun Sep 26 09:11:25 PDT 2004
"raju raju" <rajunpl at 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.
Most shells have a configurable prompt, so the prompts on your machine may
not be $ and %. For example, on my computer:
bash-2.05b$ su
Password:
working#
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Potential Technologies
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