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Preface

FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors
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Preface

Table of Contents
1. Shell Prompts
2. Typographic Conventions
3. Notes, tips, important information, warnings, and examples
4. Acknowledgments

1. Shell Prompts

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt. The examples will use this prompt to indicate which user you should be running the example as.

User	Prompt
Normal user	`%`
`root`	`#`

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