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>The following conventions are used within this guide:</P
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means hold down the<EM
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Notes often give important information about a tool.</P
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This will offer a useful switch or useful way to use a tool.</P
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>This is something that is considered very important. Consider it like a note with extra importance, they are usually there to save the reader time.</P
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This will inform you of something that you be careful about (because it could be harmful to your system).</P
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This will inform you of something that you shouldn't do (because it probably will break something within your system).</P
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>(or a similar phrase) simply shows how you would normally use the command. Often real examples are used instead of explaining the command syntax. </P
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>The standard syntax for any tool is usually:</P
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>Also note that most commands, even when not explicitly stated, will work with standard wildcards (or globbing patterns) such as *, [A-Z] and various other standard wildcards. Refer to <A
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