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 This program must be run with root privileges in order to send data to the
 keyboard. If you want to avoid this, you can either change the permissions of
 the device file manually (i.e. `chmod o+w /dev/bus/usb/<bus>/<device>`, where
-<bus> and <device> can be found by running `lsusb`), or you can create a udev
+\<bus> and \<device> can be found by running `lsusb`), or you can create a udev
 rule to do this for you at boot. I have had very limited success with the udev
 method, since the rules typically get applied very early in the boot process
 before USB devices get initialized.