command

command — The name of an executable program or other software command

Synopsis

Content Model

command ::=

Description

This element holds the name of an executable program or the text of a command that a user enters to execute a program.

Command is an integral part of the CmdSynopsis environment as well as being a common inline.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Children

The following elements occur in command: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, xref.

See Also

constant, literal, replaceable, varname

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example command</title>

<para>In <acronym>UNIX</acronym>,
<command>ls</command> is used to get a directory listing.
</para>

</article>

In UNIX, ls is used to get a directory listing.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/10/30 21:59:12 $.