Template:commands

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Special note

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Usage

Take care of always aligning the $ to the left.

{{Commands|$ command-not-found}}

{{Commands|
$ command-not-found
$ other-command
}}

Example

$ command-not-found

$ command-not-found
$ other-command

Example with wrong alignment

$ command-not-found
 $ other-command
$ final-command

Escaping pipe

Look at the source to see usage.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep '^model name' | head -n1

# Disregard useless use of cat
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep '^model name' | head -n1