command

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

Synopsis

Description

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

A command is an integral part of the cmdsynopsis environment as well as being a common inline.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 52 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 16 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example command</title>
    
  4 <para>In <acronym>UNIX</acronym>,
    <command>ls</command> is used to get a directory listing.
  6 </para>
    
  8 </article>

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

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)