Errata

On p.21, figure is labeled as Window Preferences, but figure shows Text preferences. Figure 2-3 on p. 20 shows Window preferences. Labeling of Figures in inconsistent with caps used for Preferences in 2-3 and lower case preferences in Figure 2-4.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change caption of 2-4 to read "Terminal Preferences Settings: Text preferences"

In the sentence "To type \^G, use Control-V Control-G" there's an extra \ character.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Correct. Remove the "\" in the sequence "\^G"

There's an extra $ char at the end of the pwd output: "/Users/carol/Music$"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Formatting hiccup. Just remove the trailing "$"

There are two repeated "carol" directories in the tree. The first should be "Users" instead.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change first labeled box in the "tree" illustration on top of page 50 with the word "Users" (with capitalized "U").

In the explanation for figure 3-6, it's mentioned the "john" user. But in the figure "taylor" is shown as the user.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Both paragraphs 3 and 4 on page 57 should have "john" replaced with "taylor".

It's mentioned the "Ownership & Permissions" area of the Finder's Get Info panel, but in Mountain Lion its name changed to "Sharing & Permissions".

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change as noted

"An easy way to change permissions on the working directory is by using its relative pathname, . (dot), as in chmod o-w." ? At the end of the sentence, the dot from the chmod command is missing.

Note from the Author or Editor:
It's a spacing - formatting - issue. The command is correct, but should more obviously have a space prior to the trailing dot, as in:

chmod o-w .

"you can see that Mountain Lion actually points to /" -- it should be Macintosh HD instead Mountain Lion.

"This output shows us that syslog.conf is three lines long, nfp.conf only has two lines, and ftpd.conf is also just two lines long."

It's nfs.conf (not nfp) and it has three lines (not two).

There's an extra @ char in the ls -l output:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 taylor taylor 18 8 May 08:40 neato-pic.pdf@ -> fig0403.pdf

Note from the Author or Editor:
I blame my "ls=ls -F" alias for that one. :-)

The ZIP context menu in Mountain Lion's Finder is now called:

Compress "filename"

instead the old "Create Archive" mentioned in this paragraph.

The ls output is corrupted in the timestamp part "24 8 May:52"

$ ls -l ch06.doc.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 taylor taylor 34206 24 8 May:52 ch06.doc.gz

Note from the Author or Editor:
Fix by editing output to show

-rwxr-xr-x 1 taylor taylor 34206 24 8 May 08:52 ch06.doc.gz

"notice that we added the .gz suffix to avoid later confusion about the file type"

It's mentioned the .gz suffix, but the example really uses .tgz.

The paragraph explanation used the month "Jan", but the mentioned previous example used the month "Aug" instead.

Excerpt:

$ ls -l | grep "Aug"
...
In the previous search, a file named jan-finances.xls wouldn?t have matched, because by default grep is case-sensitive. That means your searches for ?jan? wouldn?t match ?Jan?, either.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Solution: Replace "jan" with "aug" and "Jan" with "Aug" in this particular paragraph to make it consistent with the previous paragraph.

The first find example in the page used -not -name "*gz" as a primary, but the following paragraph explained that it matches "all files whose names do not match the pattern *.gz."

So, there's an extra dot in the *.gz pattern at the paragraph, or there's a missing dot at the find command. You choose :)

Note from the Author or Editor:
Need to add a dot to the "find" example to match the prose.

"but if you don?t use it as ! the shell inevitably interprets it and generates some screwy error messages." -- I believe you meant \! instead !

Just a silly filename mismatch between description and example:

Here?s what the ls command has to say about the JPEG file Peanut.jpg:

$ ls -l IMG_1912.JPG

"To achieve this, simply rename diary to something like older.diary, make a new diary file with today's entries, then append temp (with its old contents) to the new diary."

"temp" must be changed to "older.diary" in the mentioned paragraph.

Note from the Author or Editor:
There's also a formatting mistake in this paragraph too: in the third sentence of the paragraph starting "Unix doesn't have" the words "make a new diary" should NOT be in italics.

$HOME is missing from the note's example, since it improves the previous example which used $HOME (also the homedirlist.txt filename requires the ls to list the home dir, not the working dir).

The full command should be:

$ ls -l $HOME | colrm 1 30 > homedirlist.txt

"-k x ---- Ignore first x fields when sorting."

I believe it's "Ignore first x-1 fields", because x is the field used for the sorting process.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Should be rephrased as "-k x ---- Start key at position x" to address this issue. Man page states it this way:

-k, --key=POS1[,POS2]
start a key at POS1, end it at POS2 (origin 1)