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Markup fixes. Use <literal> for literal text and <command> for an

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instance of "echo".

PR:		docs/37067
Submitted by:	Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de>
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Giorgos Keramidas 2002-04-15 15:18:21 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
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to do file name globing. For example, typing in
<command>echo *</command> is almost the same as typing in
<command>ls</command> because the shell takes all the files that
match <command>*</command> and puts them on the command line for
echo to see.</para>
match <literal>*</literal> and puts them on the command line for
<command>echo</command> to see.</para>
<para>To prevent the shell from interpreting these special characters,
they can be escaped from the shell by putting a backslash