A brief note on formatting commands

In this chapter, I will use certain keywords as placeholders. These placeholders are for you to enter values into the commands and sub-commands. A typical placeholder will look like this: [INSERT VALUE]. An example would be vagrant login --user [INSERT VALUE], where [INSERT VALUE] would be something such as myusername and the final command that you input would be vagrant login --user myusername. There is no need for capital letters or square brackets.

When you see the [VMNAME] placeholder, this refers to a specific Vagrant machine name that you want to run the command against on your system. The default Vagrant machine is called default, so an example command would be vagrant resume default, which would resume the machine from a suspended state.