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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md b/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
index eea11a428..31faeadc2 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
The easiest way to install Nix is to run the following command:
```console
-sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
+$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
```
This will run the installer interactively (causing it to explain what
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ you can authenticate with `sudo`.
To explicitly select a single-user installation on your system:
```console
-sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
+$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
```
This will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that `/nix`
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ if it doesn’t already exist. If you don’t have `sudo`, you should
manually create `/nix` first as root, e.g.:
```console
-mkdir /nix
-chown alice /nix
+$ mkdir /nix
+$ chown alice /nix
```
The install script will modify the first writable file from amongst
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ the install script to disable this behaviour.
You can uninstall Nix simply by running:
```console
-rm -rf /nix
+$ rm -rf /nix
```
# Multi User Installation
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ You can instruct the installer to perform a multi-user installation on
your system:
```console
-sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
+$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
```
The multi-user installation of Nix will create build users between the
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ These install scripts can be used the same as the main NixOS.org
installation script:
```console
-sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
+$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
```
In the same directory of the install script are sha256 sums, and gpg
@@ -289,10 +289,10 @@ it somewhere (e.g. in `/tmp`), and then run the script named `install`
inside the binary tarball:
```console
-cd /tmp
-tar xfj nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
-cd nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin
-./install
+$ cd /tmp
+$ tar xfj nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
+$ cd nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin
+$ ./install
```
If you need to edit the multi-user installation script to use different