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The following notation is used throughout the manual:
Literal text looks like this.
Optional text is in square brackets: [ ].
Text in curly braces ({ }) is optional and can be repeated zero or more times.
Arguments to a command, a command-line option, or a C++ or Perl function look like this.
Terminal input or output looks like this.
Filenames look like this.
Source code looks like this.