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Where does the tradition of shell prompts in code snippets come from?
$ is the default prompt prefix for a non-escalated bourn or sh shell on most *nix systems. It signifies that the code exemplified should be executed using one of those associated shells. … The fish shell uses >. Putting the prefix is simply a quick way to let the reader know what shell the command is destined for. …
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