UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition
by Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and Mike Loukides


Unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.


This page was updated May 17, 2001.


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UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers:


[18.9]  Section 18.9 -- First block of code;
On the UNIX CD Bookshelf CD ROM.....
Section 18.9 in Power Tools.

The command is incorrect.
ls -d *.new | sed "s/.*\)\.new$/mv '&' '\1.old'/" | sh

It should be:
ls -d *.new | sed "s/\(.*\)\.new$/mv '&' '\1.old'/" | sh


(134 and 135)  Table 8-1:
Quoting Character       Explanation
'xxx'			Disable all special characters in xxx.
"xxx"			Disable all special characters in xxx except
			$, `, and \.
\x			Disable special meaning of character x. At
			end of line, a \ removes the newline character
			(continues line).


The Disable as highlighted in bold (for "xxx") should be protects.