When you give command examples and etc., in a manual page prefix them with:

$ command
or
# command

deraadt@ ok

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/apply/apply.1 b/usr.bin/apply/apply.1
index d20e5bef2e2..85c6a34651b 100644
--- a/usr.bin/apply/apply.1
+++ b/usr.bin/apply/apply.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: apply.1,v 1.16 2001/05/01 17:58:01 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: apply.1,v 1.17 2002/02/13 08:33:46 mpech Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: apply.1,v 1.4 1996/03/18 23:16:57 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993
@@ -98,12 +98,12 @@ Debug mode.
 Print commands to the standard output but do not actually execute them.
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
-.Cm "apply echo a*"
+.Cm "$ apply echo a*"
 .Pp
 Similar to
 .Xr ls 1 .
 .Pp
-.Cm "apply \-2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3"
+.Cm "$ apply \-2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3"
 .Pp
 Compares the
 .Dq a
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ files to the
 .Dq b
 files.
 .Pp
-.Cm "apply \-0 who 1 2 3 4 5"
+.Cm "$ apply \-0 who 1 2 3 4 5"
 .Pp
 Runs
 .Xr who 1
 5 times.
 .Pp
-.Cm "apply \'ln %1 /usr/joe\'" *
+.Cm "$ apply \'ln %1 /usr/joe\'" *
 .Pp
 Links all files in the current directory to the directory
 .Pa /usr/joe .