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Re:The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal by spondyl on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:26AM (#31131638)
I'm guilty of this, as I have my prompt set to a single > character. I'd be interested to know where the $ as a representation for user input suggestion originated from. I didn't know about # indicating that a command should be run as a superuser
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Re:The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal by jjav on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:10AM (#31131865)
> I'd be interested to know where the $ as a representation for user input suggestion originated from.

In the absence of any configuration, the default prompt for most shells is (or was) simply $. When you su to root, it becomes #

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Re:The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal by 0xdeadb00f on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:16AM (#31132402)
Indeed.
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