Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition by Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, et. al. The following errata were corrected in the 3/04 reprint: Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem (xxxviii) first three lines (Acknowledgements for third edition): "...the original authors. This includes Tim O'Reilly and Jerry Peek, among others previously mentioned, who contributed to past additions." NOW READS: "...the original authors. These include Tim O'Reilly and Jerry Peek, among others previously mentioned, who contributed to past editions." (xxx) 2nd paragraph, last sentence; To get one of these programs, use our visit the web site: NOW READS: To get one of these programs, visit the web site: {11} Second example: shelleyp*:1006:1006:Shelley Powers:/usr/home/shelleyp:/usr/local/bin/bash NOW READS: shelleyp:*:1006:1006:Shelley Powers:/usr/home/shelleyp:/usr/local/bin/bash (28) 4th paragraph; In this sentence: "Tcl is particularly prevelant within Linux systems, though it's use is widespread throughout all Unix systems." 1)"Prevelant" HAS BEEN CHANGED to "prevalent". 2)"it's" HAS BEEN CHANGED to "its" {184} Table 9-1, Line 1; The character for "Block special file" of the -type operator HAS BEEN CHANGED to B, instead of c. <478> The third line on the page says that the book's shell programming chapters are Chapters 46 to 48. Those chapter references NOW READ, respectivey: Chapters 35 to 37. {519} The five command lines in the middle of the page indicated to update the shell's path with the commands ".," and "source,". The commas were errorsand those command names HAVE BEEN CHANGED to simply "." and "source". (534 and 535) Footnote text on page 535 HAS BEEN MOVED to page 534. {697} The first line of both examples on this page started with "+sed" The "+" character in each line HAS BEEN REMOVED to make the lines start with "sed". {761} The first line of all three examples on this page started with "+#!". The "+" character HAS BEEN REMOVED to make the lines start with "#!". {779} The third line of the "A:" answer: (<">$1<"> <">$2<">) NOW READS: "$1" "$2" <896> IN PRINT: "...Otherwise, you can use tpipe; it's on the CD-ROM". NOW READS: "...Otherwise, you can use tpipe; it's available online." {1011} The kill command at the end of article 51.1 used straight single quotes('). These HAVE BEEN CHANGED to backquotes, so the line NOW READS: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`