Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. The following are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "In addition, feel free to join the #linuxmint-help IRC chat room and speak to other users there as well."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Clicking on the Apply button will save your settings."

Any terminal output is written as follows:

# cat /var/log/syslog