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Conventions

fixed-width text contents of code files or output from commands, or source code keywords
<fixed-width, emphasised text, angle bracket delimited text> file and directory names, program and command names, command-line options, urls, user-defined parameters.
fixed width, bold text keywords
[fixed-width, square bracket delimited text] optional items in syntax descriptions
{fixed-width, curly bracket delimited text} list of items in syntax descriptions, one must be chosen
| separates bracketed items in lists in syntax descriptions
comments
line numbers
operators
strings

Basics

*nix

Windows

Mac

more

last

And because it doesn't seem to belong anywhere else - here's a list of the metasyntactic variables

foo
bar
baz
qux
qux
fiz
bin
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