Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The ls command can be used to view the contents of the current directory."

A block of code is set as follows:

#! /usr/bin/python

name = raw_input("What is your name?\n")
print "Hello " + name

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# root@KaliLinux:~# ./test.py 
What is your name?
Justin
Hello Justin

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Once you have opened VMware Player, you can select Create a New Virtual Machine to get started."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.