Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles 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: "Discover how to gather hardware-based system information using lscpu and lspci."

A block of code is set as follows:

/path/to/nfs/publication/directory    XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX(rw,sync,root_squash,no_all_squash)

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

# yum groupinstall "Base" "Development Libraries" "Development Tools"

Note

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Tip

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