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style-guide: add a note about avoiding general terminal functionality (#18438)
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If a program requires root privileges to run and doesn't provide its own prompt for a password, prepend the command with `sudo` (e.g. `sudo apt update`).
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Avoid explaining general UNIX concepts that could apply to any command (i.e. relative/absolute paths, glob patterns/wildcards, special character escaping, program return values, ...)
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### Standardized Terms
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Some terms are used repeatedly throughout pages, and as such, should be standardized. These include:

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