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      5 hours ago

      Following the openbsd example from the original comment I replied to, it has absolutely nothing to say about what brackets mean, so this advice would not be helpful for an openbsd system: https://man.openbsd.org/man

      On my personal linux system (arch derivative, by the way), it at least mentions brackets meaning optional, but only in the context of arguments:

         [-abc]             any or all arguments within [ ] are optional.
      

      I think this would trip up some new users. The destination, with or without the username to connect as, may not seem like an “argument” to a new user since it doesn’t have a dash before it like the example does