Text Formatting ⇒ special characters

[singlebinary]

I would like to show "cp x.0* ~/Desktop/rv_vb10/" in latex just the way it is. For this I do the following:

\textbf{$\rm{cp x.0* ~/Desktop/rv_vb10/}$} \newline

However the input comes out as:

cpx.0 ∗ /Desktop/rvv b10/

where the second "v" is below "rv". I know the reason why it is doing it but I do not know how to show this in latex correctly.

Thanks

[gmedina]

Try with

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\verb+cp x.0* ~/Desktop/rv_vb10/+

[singlebinary]

Thanks your reply. I used the following:

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\textbf{$\verb+cp x.0* ~/Desktop/rv_vb10/+$} \newline

and I get the following error (see below). Do I need some special package?

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! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
l.29 \textbf{$\verb+cp x.0* ~/Desktop/rv_vb10/+$}
                                                  \newline
?

after which every sentence is italcized. Without this line the latex runs without error.

[gmedina]

Why did you go into math mode? The following example shows two options:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

text text \verb+cp x.0* ~/Desktop/rv_vb10/+ text text 

text text \textbf{cp x.0 \textasciitilde\negthinspace/Desktop/rv\textunderscore vb10/} text text 

\end{document}

[singlebinary]

I went into math mode because the first example does not work with \textbf{}. However the second more explicit example worked just fine!

Thank you very much!