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  • You should consider who your audience is, are they all CLI experts familiar with the difference in syntax? That seems unlikely.

    I’d always write documentation in a way that’s accessible to most users. The difference between $ and # syntax is highly esoteric.

    sudo on the other hand is familiar to almost everyone. It’s one of the first things mentioned in beginners guides.

    I wouldn’t even prefix your commands with $ as an experienced user is quite likely to include that when copying the command.

    A lot of people are citing the arch wiki as a standard that uses # but isn’t the entire meme around arch that its a notably complex system?