Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xxii changed both instances of "ora.com" to "oreilly.com" |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page xii and xxii in the last printing, the printer inserted the page we |
had sent to replace xxii as xii instead. So I sent them new ones to |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page xvii and xviii changed all the instances of "ora.com" to "oreilly.com" |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page xxii The following information was added to the "Comments and Questions" |
section of the preface: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 7 added the following footnote, anchored at "the exclamation point |
alone.": |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 21 para. -3: changed "and the city" to "or the city" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 24 1st code example: removed 5th line from the bottom ("print " " $2") |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 24 1st code changed: |
}' $* | |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 24 code sample 1, replaced last four lines |
$1 != LastState { |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 25 2nd code example changed to |
$1 == LastState { |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 29 Figure 3-1, section 3: the two letter a's in "jar" and "abe" |
are now in bold, as they are in section 6. |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 38 1st bullet item: fixed broken cross-reference; it now says "see |
Table 3-3" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 39 in table, changed "Alphanumeric characters" to "Printable |
characters (includes whitespace)" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 39 Table 3-3, row 8, column 2: changed "Alphanumeric characters" |
to "Printable characters (includes whitespace)" |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 39 table |
In the table for character classes, |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 47 para. 2: added "for grep" after "a regular expression" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 48 Last paragraph first line |
Should read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 51 In the script code for the gres command, the following has been |
inserted as the first line: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 53 |
The gres command in the middle of the page used to read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 54 table: Month, Day, Year entry: added "" before the "}" after "2" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 57 The two instances of sample script have been updated to use |
global subsitution. The first one, for example, now reads: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 58 Figure 4-1 shows a script. The first line of the script |
now ends with a slash "/" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 73 last code example, line 2: put "Chapter" in all caps |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 74 next-to-last code, line 3: put "Chapter" in all caps |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 74 para. -3: changed "TeX" to "LaTeX" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 81 line 2: deleted "a blank or" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 83 para. 3: changed "a blank line" to "blank lines" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 83 3rd code changed to |
/^.Ah/{ |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 85 code example -3 changed to |
/^.XX /s/sed, substitution command/sed, substitute command/ |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 88 |
changed footnote to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 101 2nd code example changed |
.Rh 0 "DBclose" "closes a database" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 105 code examples 1 and 2 changed to (respectively) |
sed -n " |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 105 para. 1, line 3: changed "Writing sed Scripts," to "Writing |
sed Scripts)" (changed comma to close parenthesis.) |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 115 In line 3 of the script in Figure 6-1 |
The "s" command is now lower case. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 133 IN PRINT: Code sample at bottom of page, lines 10 and 15 |
SHOULD BE: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 153 code sample 5: added a blank line between 2 and 3 lines so |
that the sample now reads as follows: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 155 The check book balancer has been fixed to now allow deposits. |
The last two lines on the page now read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 156 The same changes as page 155 with putting a negative sign before |
the amount spent on each item. Also, in the middle of the page, the |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 157 The following text was added to the top of the page |
you'd want to make to this program to improve it, and |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 163 In the last line |
for a directories |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 165 In the table, in between the entries for 's' and 'x', |
the following entry has been added: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 171 para. 2: added a footnote to the end of the line |
"Here's the info script using awk:". The footnote text is |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 191 2nd code block, line 5: changed "numberals" to "numerals" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 195 code sample 1: changed lines 5 through 7 from |
if ( $i in acro ) { |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 212 para. 6, line -2: changed "Use "&"" to "Use "&"" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 221 |
The second code block, fourth line read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 221 The fourth paragraph, third line ending with |
"elements are swapped." A footnote was added: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 236 code sample 4, added dash at the end of the line. The line |
now reads |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 246 last code on page: changed "orders.today" to "orders" |
Anonymous | May 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 248 Last paragraph first first sentence |
If a program has a number of branching constructs, you might find that an input line falls through |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 256 code sample 3, line 2: "#! /bin/sh" should be "#!/bin/sh" |
(closed-up the space) |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 263 |
The ftp location for GNU awk has been updated. It now reads: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 263 |
Under "GNU awk (gawk)," second paragraph, line 2 read: |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 272 Code in 1st and 3rd paragrah |
the contents should show: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 274 |
code sample, changed alignment so that it now reads: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 409 added the following to the end of the next-to-last para. |
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Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 |