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Assignee: (unassigned) => Joseph (josephjamesmills)
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Title:
Is "$" symbol still necessary in the command lines?
Status in Ubuntu Packaging Guide:
New
Bug description:
Hi all!
I was looking at packaging guide html version (merging topic)[1], and
I found each "command line" comes after a "$" symbol.
I know that we/you use that as "a convention", and that's true. As far
as I know "$" and "#" have been used in the past to make distinction
between commands run by user and cmds run by root, but (using sudo for
having root permissions) do you think "$" is still necessary?...
I mean, you will have the symbol ever... also in commands coming with
sudo (that's why "the user runs sudo" , and user is "$"), so it seems
to be really redundant.
Another think I would like to put to your attention is:
Try to image a "new user" comes, he's not a developer and he does not feel
comfortable with the terminal, I think he will very appreciate the possibility
to "copy/paste" commands in a really fast way, that's now seems to be a little
tricky due to the "$" presence, indeed you cannot "double-clic" on the line to
get full text-selection.
Have a great day!
Leo.
[1] - http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/udd-merging.html
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