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When the question deals with the format of the answers posted on Ask Ubuntu.

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$ (prompt) in command line instructions

I differentiate between "Type these commands to do the task" (which should be copy/paste-able), and "Here is what my answer produces on MY system (YMMV)", where the $ and # are used to show context. …
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