Command Line Conventions
Our manuals present command lines in courier. When a command line is identical on all supported operating systems, the command begins with the word “prompt”, as shown below:
prompt> echo "The same on all systems."
When the syntax of a command line differs depending on the operating system, we provide a table that lists the operating systems and the command syntax. We use simply “Windows” for all versions of the Windows operating system. We use the phrase “UNIX/Linux” to mean UNIX operating systems and the Linux operating system. For UNIX and Linux systems, the syntax of a command may also depend on the shell. For example, the command below sets an environment variable:
Windows | set PATH=%RW_HOME%\bin;%PATH% |
UNIX/Linux sh | PATH=$RW_HOME/bin:$PATH ; export PATH |
