Just to add to this....the $ or # denote the type of access you have... $ means that you have standard shell access, whereas if you see # at the start of a command you have (or should have) root access.
Obviously in Ubuntu if you are looking for help somewhere and see a command written as #apt-get install, you can achieve the same using $sudo apt-get install On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net> wrote: > > Hmmm... typing "pwd" will show the current directory. The "$" is the > command prompt, it is not part of the command. >
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